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French moralist and essayist 1754–1824Related quotes
“Anger - use it, but don't lose it!”
Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool (1984)

“But still anger ought be far from us, for nothing is able to be done rightly nor judiciously with anger.”
Sed tamen ira procul absit, cum qua nihil recte fieri nec considerate potest.
Book I, section 38
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)
Variant: In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.
“Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.”
Source: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
Source: Bag of Bones

“Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.”
Source: Selected Poems