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Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

Plutarch
Anger, Doors, Mind

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Plutarch
Anger, Men, Savages
Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives - Complete”, p.1137, Simon and Schuster

For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

Plutarch
Anger, Fire, Wrath
Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2636, Delphi Classics

Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill; to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.

Plutarch
Anger, Men, Self

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

Plutarch
Anger, Men, Angry Man
Plutarch (1704). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.56

When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

Plutarch
Anger, Battle, Resistance
Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.37

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