“Give not rein to your hot mood, give time, a little delay; impulse is ever a bad servant.”

— Statius , book Thebaid

Source: Thebaid, Book X, Line 703. Variant translation: Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

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Ne frena animo permitte calenti, da spatium tenuemque moram, male cuncta ministrat impetus.

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