When any one provokes you, know that it is your own opinion which has provoked you.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
If you would not be of an angry temper, do not feed your habit; give it nothing which may increase the disorder.
It is easy to fly into a passion—anybody can do that; but to be angry with the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, 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 and at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Refuse to express a passion, and it dies. Count ten before venting your anger, and its occasion seems ridiculous.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
There is no disease like greed, no enemy like anger, no poverty like ignorance, and no happiness like wisdom.
He who has conquered anger, greed, and delusion is a true conqueror, greater than the emperor of three worlds.
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Anger is a brief madness; rule your passion or it will rule you.
There are two things a person should never be angry at: what they can help, and what they cannot.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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