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Francis Bacon Quotes about Anger

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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Francis Bacon
Forgiveness, Revenge, Anger
Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.515

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Francis Bacon
Forgiveness, Revenge, Anger
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Revenge'

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

Francis Bacon
Christian, Anger, Sins Not
Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1867). “Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately”, p.296

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

Francis Bacon
Children, Anger, Men
Francis Bacon (1850). “Works”, p.306

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