Archytas of Tarentum was immersing himself deeply in the teachings of Pythagoras at Metapontum, and after a long time and a lot of hard...

“There are men too, who have not virtue enough to be angry...He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” Paine, Thomas. Thomas Paine:...

That is the account told by the Argives and Aeginetans, and they agree with the Athenians that only one Athenian returned home to Attica...

The Philosopher Zeno says: Wrath is anger which has long rankled and has become malicious, waiting for its opportunity, as is illustrated...

“Anger is a waste of energy,” Churchill said. “Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive the engine.”...

The coup in Belgrade threw Adolf Hitler into one of the wildest rages of his entire life. He took it as a personal affront and in his fury made sudden decisions which would prove utterly disastrous to the fortunes of the third Reich.

Pope Julius 11 was not a man one wished to offend. No pope before or since has enjoyed such a fearsome reputation. A sturdily built sixty-three-old with snow-white hair and a ruddy face, he was known as il papa terribile, the “dreadful” or “terrifying” pope. People had good reason to dread Julius. His violent rages, in which he punched underlings or thrashed them with his stick, were legendary. To stunned onlookers he possessed an almost superhuman power to bend the world to

There are certain persons who exhibit their high spirit rather gently, and in a sort of passionless manner do everything that even those who are swept away by their anger do. We must be on our guard, therefore, against the error of these persons, as something much worse than violent anger. For those who give way to violent anger are soon sated with their revenge, but the others prolong it like men who have a light fever.

…that it is not right to punish anyone in anger – even a slave, since masters who are angry often themselves suffer greater evils than they inflict on their servants. And it is a complete and utter mistake to attack an enemy with anger rather than with judgment. For anger acts without foresight, whereas judgment has in view a way to harm one’s enemy without suffering any hurt from him in return.