Āsīvisa Sutta2
SuttaA discourse, distinct from the allegorical sutta sharing its title, that compares four types of venomous or fierce snakes to four types of people distinguished by how quickly they anger and how long their anger lasts, a name also shared by an unrelated chapter of the Saṃyuttanikāya.
There are four kinds of snakes in the world: the venomous but not fierce, the fierce but not venomous, the one that is both and the one that is neither. Similarly there are four kinds of persons: the one quick to get angry but with short-lived anger, the one slow to get angry but with lasting anger, etc. (A.ii.110-11)
Āsīvisa Vagga.– The nineteenth chapter of the Saḷāyatana Saṃyutta of the Saṃyuttanikāya. J.iv.172-204.
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