
Ambrose of Milan
Catena Aurea · Matthäusevangelium 5
bBlessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
(ubi sup.) Soften therefore your temper that you be not angry, at least that you be angry, and sin not. It is a noble thing to govern passion by reason; nor is it a less virtue to check anger, than to be entirely without anger, since one is esteemed the sign of a weak, the other of a strong, mind.