“Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.”
In ancient Israel, a man who took a city in battle was the highest form of warrior — a figure of national legend. Solomon places a different man above him: the one who governs his own anger. The comparison is intentional.
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