Passage 16

In English

How anger reduces one's strength

Once set out to kill . But whenever came out of his city to fight , the latter would flee from the battlefield. Was afraid of ? Not at all. But wanted to find out the appropriate means of slaying . had a strategy. Each time went to challenge , he would get enraged. He would come out to pursue . would go on retreating. By repeating these tactics several times, was made to expend his strength in futile rage. A man's strength is considerably reduced by his anger. A man's life-span is cut to pieces by the shears of envy, anger and hatred. Envy is the main cause of shortening a man's life; when a man gets angry, his whole body trembles. His blood gets heated. It takes three months for the blood to get cool again. One moment of anger may consume the energy got from six months of eating. This is the way anger debilitates a person. By systematically weakening in this way, ultimately managed to slay him.