There was once a king who wanted the master to teach the young prince about anger – so when the prince was just a boy, his teacher took him straight over to a bush with a cluster of bees and shoved the boy’s hand into the nest. The bees came out stinging the boy, and the young prince cried out and said “I’m going to tell my father on you!” But the master made the boy watch the bees who had stung him; he made him watch their last agonizing moments before they died. And then he said this:
“You were hurt by the bees’ anger; but they were killed by it.”
It is said the young prince grew up to be the most self-controlled ruler in all the land – an emperor who was most famous for his quiet judgment and unwillingness to be provoked.