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“The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.”
“Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render each other mute,how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer,sympathetic thing.”
“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.”
“Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.”
“Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument.”
“Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.”
“Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.”
“Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.”
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
“Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
“He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.”
“Anger is a brief madness.”
“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
“Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.”
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”
“There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.”
“Anger always comes from frustrated expectations.”
“Men are no more immune from emotions than women, we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, 'feminine' ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.”
“Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt.”
“Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger.”
“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
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