Ecclesiastes 10:4

King James 2000

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, leave not your post; for yielding pacifies great offences.

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Be not hasty to go out of his presence: stand not for an evil thing; for he does whatsoever pleases him.

By long patience is a prince persuaded, and a gentle tongue breaks the bone.

A wrathful man stirs up strife: but he that is slow to anger quiets strife.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceeds from the ruler: