Quote by Diogenes Laërtius

"Anybody can become angry, that is easy. But to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the right way is not within anybody's power."

Diogenes Laërtius Patience
Historian Biographer Ancient Greece

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