Note 31 — Chapter VII · ETHICS.
Reading edition
Ch. 33. Compare the words of Sir T. Browne:—“Rest not in an ovation, but a triumph over thy passions.” Christian Morals, sect. 2. So also Solomon—“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.” Proverbs, xvi. 32. Compare also Horace’s Ode to Sallust, vs. 9, &c.