Cut off your anger and cast aside your resentful expressions. Do not be angry when others are different from us. All people have minds. And the mind of each person has its own preferences. When they consider something right, we consider the same thing wrong. When we consider something right, they consider the same thing wrong. We are not necessarily wise, and they are not necessarily fools. All of us are simply ordinary human beings. Who can set up absolutely correct criteria to judge right from wrong? We are all wise and foolish in some ways. There is no time we can conclude who is wiser and who is more foolish, just as a circle has no end. For this reason, when others become angry, we should be mindful of our own faults.

Japanese constitution of 604 A.D. by Prince Shotoku