²² An angry man is the cause of fighting, and a man given to wrath does much wrong.

¹⁸ An angry man makes men come to blows, but he who is slow to get angry puts an end to fighting.

¹⁹ The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.

²¹ Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.

¹² Hate is a cause of violent acts, but all errors are covered up by love.

¹⁷ He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

²⁴ Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man:

¹⁶ For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

³³ The shaking of milk makes butter, and the twisting of the nose makes blood come: so the forcing of wrath is a cause of fighting.