Buddhaghosa on Anger

“By [getting angry] you are like a man who wants to hit another and picks up a burning ember or excrement in his hand and so first burns himself or makes himself stink”

– Venerable Buddhaghosa, Visuddhimagga IX-23 (written in 5th Century AD). 

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