"No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him."
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"Abused patience turns to fury."
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"The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion."
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"Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later."
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"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him."
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"What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you."
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"The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree."
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"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."
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"It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness."
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"The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened."
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"In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path."
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"Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance."
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"When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty."
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"Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect."
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"We boil at different degrees."
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"Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old."
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"Nothing brings people together more, than mutual hatred."
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"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."
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"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
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"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him."
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