"He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him."
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"For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it."
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"Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill; to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger."
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"Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man."
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"When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them."
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"When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket."
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"A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours."
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"So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger."
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"It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger."
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"Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral."
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"I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates."
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"What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone."
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"Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons."
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"To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?"
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"Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful."
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"You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank, And straight is cold again."
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"Never anger made good guard for itself."
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"Do not plunge thyself too far in anger."
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"If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water drops, Stain my man's cheeks."
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"Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint."
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