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Hillel answered, “You can lose 400 and another 400. Hillel doesn’t get angry.”

In an alternate version I heard that the man said to him, “You just caused me to lose 400 zuzim!” to which Hillel replied, “Better that you should lose another 400 zuzim than that I should lose my temper.”