“Audi consilium, et suscipe disciplinam, ut sis sapiens in novissimis tuis.”
“Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.”
“Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.”
“Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.”
“Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.”
Lamp. Prosperity, or children.
A wise man will observe these two rules about his anger: 1. Not to be over-hasty in his resentments: Discretion teaches us to defer our anger, to defer the admission of it till we have thoroughly considered all the merits of the provocation, seen them in a true light and weighed them in a just balance; and then to defer the prosecution of it till there be no danger of running into any indecencies. Plato said to his servant, "I would beat thee, but that I am angry." Give it time, and it will cool. 2. Not to be over-critical in his resentments. Whereas it is commonly looked upon as a piece of ingenuity to apprehend an affront quickly, it is here made a man's glory to pass over a transgression, to appear as if he did not see it (Ps 38 13), or, if he sees fit to take notice of it, yet to forgive it and meditate no revenge.