"Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
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"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."
"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."
"It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire."
"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."
"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."
"A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."
"No one loves the man whom he fears."
"Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath."
"For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again."
"To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy."
"We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time."
"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."
"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."
"Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything."
"Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain."
"You can't shake hands with a closed fist."
"I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world."
"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind."
"One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin."