Gotama Buddha

Homer Ὅμηρος

c. 8th century BC · Ionia, ancient Greece

Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus, the ruinous wrath that brought the Achaeans pains beyond counting.

μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρίʼ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγεʼ ἔθηκε

Iliad, the first two lines

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William Blake

1794 · London, England

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

"A Poison Tree," in Songs of Experience

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Mark Twain

1894 · Missouri, USA · Connecticut

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

Pudd'nhead Wilson, a chapter epigraph from "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

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Abraham Lincoln

March 4, 1865 · Illinois, USA · In the spring when four years of civil war were coming to an end

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right,--let us strive on to finish the work we are in: to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.

Second Inaugural Address

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