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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry: for anger rests in the lap of fools. "He does not grant here that anger should be tempered, therefore he now says, "Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry"; but that when anger is mad and new, it is more easily tempered because it is dispersed easily and can be removed. …
Bonaventure
Having set down the lessons for modesty and constancy, here he sets down lessons for having prudence. And because it belongs to the prudent man to discern where one may err: therefore he sets down four lessons for having discretion. The first is for the discernment of useful things: the second, for the discernment of the divine works: the third, for the discernment of times: the fourth, for the discernment of the merits of men. …
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