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Quotes for: anger




When someone opposes me, he arouses my attention, not my anger. I go to greet a man who contradicts me, who instructs me.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 






If I were not king, I should lose my temper.
Louis XIV / 






With the good man anger is quick to die.
Publilius Syrus / 






Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi / 






Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll / 






So when any one makes you angry, know that it is your own thought that has angered you.
Epictetus - Handbook (Enchiridion) / 



So when any one makes you angry, know that it is your own thought that has angered you.




Anger is a short madness.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles / 






Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.
Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics / 






The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Seneca / 






Therefore, I beg you, do not let yourself become angry
For every creature needs the help of all.

Bertolt Brecht / 






If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
Bertrand Russell / 






Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien






He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
Milan Kundera






Reason wishes to give a just decision; anger wishes its decision to be thought just.
Seneca / 






Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama






The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences / 






Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon






When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius






Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sigmund Freud






Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi






Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain






The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
Publilius Syrus






Hatred is inveterate anger.
Marcus Tullius Cicero






How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius






Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin






Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian






When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epictetus






Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin






Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mahatma Gandhi






Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde / 






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