“The Elephant is never won with Anger,
Nor must that man, who would reclaim a Lion,
Take him by the teeth.”

—  John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

Valentinian (1685), Act I, Scene III
Valentinian was Rochester's adaptation of a play (ca. 1610-1614) by John Fletcher
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