“Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.”

—  Pythagoras

As quoted in Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1894) by Maturin Murray Ballou

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ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585–-495 BC

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