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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Plato on anger

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot on anger

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epictetus on anger

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

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on anger

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon on anger

Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
Arthur Schopenhauer on anger

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas a Kempis on anger

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Alfred A. Montapert on anger

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll on anger

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter on anger

Anger is a short madness.
Horace on anger

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon on anger

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
Cato on anger

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on anger

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris on anger

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian on anger

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
James Fallows on anger

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber on anger

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
William Butler Yeats on anger