Ecclesiastes 7:8-10

Revised Standard Version

⁸ Better is the end of a thing than its beginning;
    and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
⁹ Be not quick to anger,
    for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
¹⁰ Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?”
    For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.