Do not do something because you are angry, even if it will cause trouble for you
John Heywood’s A Dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the Prouerbes in the Englishe tongue, 1562 list this entry under “Of Spite“: If there be any, as I hope there be none, That would lese [lose] both his eyes to lese his foe one, Then fear I there be many, as the world go’th, That would lese one eye to lese their foes both.