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I don\'t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it\'s true - I\'m scary.
I don\'t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it\'s true - I\'m scary.
Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been read more
Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; norcan the dead ever be brought back to life. Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. This is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as read more
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain
To feel much anger.
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain
To feel much anger.
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right read more
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 and is not easy.
They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it
is a waste of time to read more
They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it
is a waste of time to ask who are guilty.
[Lat., Trahit ipse furoris
Impetus, et visum est lenti quaesisse nocentum.]