“Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.”
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François de La Rochefoucauld
4 quotes“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
Horace
3 quotes“Anger is a brief madness.”
Ernest Hemingway
3 quotes“Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.”
Goethe
3 quotes“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”
H.P. Lovecraft
2 quotes“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
Frank Herbert
2 quotes“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 quotes“To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.”
Veronica Roth
2 quotes“I still want to be angry, but I have to let my anger go.”
Aldous Huxley
2 quotes“Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
2 quotes“…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope...”
Louis L'Amour
2 quotes“Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.”
George Eliot
2 quotes“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”