A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
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.
I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Being evil is easy.
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.