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Anger

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

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. – Francis Bacon

Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. – Alfred A. Montapert

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

Anger is a short madness. – Horace

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

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. – Cato

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. – John Ruskin

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart. – Thomas Fuller

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight. – William Congreve

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. – Thomas Fuller

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. – Baltasar Gracian

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. – Frank Herbert

Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts. – Ovid

Keep cool anger is not an argument. – Daniel Webster

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity. – Mary Garden