A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
While I am in this world, I am resolved that no vexation shall put me out of temper if I can possibly command myself. Even old age, which is making strides towards me, shall not prevail to make me peevish.
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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