Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you read more

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. Cato -Marcus Antonius.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain
To feel much anger.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain
To feel much anger.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.

Anger assists hands however weak.
[Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]

Anger assists hands however weak.
[Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]

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

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

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed read more

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.

Anger is one of the sinews of the Soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Anger is one of the sinews of the Soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had read more

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.