He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that rules his spirit than he that takes a city.
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Gregory The Dialogist
AD 604
Taking cities is a smaller victory because the places we conquer are outside of ourselves. A greater [victory] is won by patience, because a person overcomes himself and subjects himself to himself, when patience brings him low in bearing with others in humility.