“Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us.
Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on”

—  Homér , Iliad

Source: The Iliad

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Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

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