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Read & copy the quotation
“Allay the anger of your friend by kindness.”
- Date
- 1856 translation
- English wording
- Darius Lyman — Translator · from Latin
Meaning of “Allay the anger of your friend by kindness.”
Kindness can lower the temperature of conflict more effectively than matching a friend’s anger with additional anger.
Where does it come from?
The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, maxim 3, in Darius Lyman’s 1856 English rendering; maxim order can vary across editions.
