Sun Tzu (Sayings recorded between 6th-3rd century BCE)
“Anger
Can turn to
Pleasure;
Spite
Can turn to
Joy.
But a nation destroyed
Cannot be
Put back together again;
A dead man
Canot be brought back to life.”
- From Sun Tzu’s The Art of War (Chapter Twelve), translated by John Minford (Penguin Classics edition).