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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.
He who angers you conquers you.
He who angers you conquers you.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right read more
Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been read more
Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; norcan the dead ever be brought back to life. Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. This is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact.
When anger rises, think of the consequences
When anger rises, think of the consequences
Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris.
Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry