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494. Abstain from action when under the spell of anger Nov 22, 2019

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While you are angry, you ought not to be allowed to do anything. Why?, do you ask? Because when you are angry there is nothing that you do not wish to be allowed to do.

493. Humor, not anger Nov 21, 2019

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It is said that Socrates when he was given a box on the ear, merely said that it was a pity a man could not tell when he ought to wear his helmet out walking.

492. Practical steps to curb your anger Nov 20, 2019

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Do something that relaxes you, change your environment to make it soothing, and most importantly don't engage in anything major if you are tired, stressed, or hungry.

491. Be careful with the company you keep Nov 19, 2019

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We should live with the quietest and easiest-tempered persons, not with anxious or with sullen ones: for our own habits are copied from those with whom we associate.

490. Anger betrays what is best in humanity Nov 18, 2019

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Anger pays a penalty at the same moment that it exacts one: it forswears human feelings. The latter urge us to love, anger urges us to hatred: the latter bid us do good, anger bids us do harm.

489. The difference between anger and other negative emotions Nov 15, 2019

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Other vices affect our judgment, anger affects our sanity. Its intensity is in no way regulated by its origin: for it rises to the greatest heights from the most trivial beginnings.

488. The awful things we do when angered Nov 14, 2019

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Men, frantic with rage, call upon heaven to slay their children, to reduce themselves to poverty, and to ruin their houses, and yet declare that they are not either angry or insane.

487. It takes two to have a fight Nov 13, 2019

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If anyone is angry with you, meet their anger by returning benefits for it: a quarrel which is only taken up on one side falls to the ground: it takes two people to fight.

486. On revenge and retaliation Nov 12, 2019

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Revenge and retaliation are words which men use and even think to be righteous, yet they do not greatly differ from wrong-doing.

485. Think of everything, expect everything Nov 11, 2019

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People think some things unjust because they ought not to suffer them, and some because they did not expect to suffer them: we think what is unexpected is beneath our deserts.

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