Philosophy Quote by Thomas Paine

“He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.”

— David Hume

“My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make…

— Charlaine Harris

“There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much…

— Benjamin Franklin

“When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no…

— Anonymous

“A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride.”

— Newton Gatambia

“Such anger is a destructive emotion. It eats away at whatever peace you have, and in the end it causes nothing but greater pain…

— Misty Bernall

“If a man is to have a fault, it should be a passionate one, like insatiable curiosity. It would be a pity to be…

— Gary Jennings

“A man is only as Strong as that which makes him angry”

— Shadak the hunter

“When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.”

— Jean Plaidy

“There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger”

— Michel de Montaigne

“A man's wounded pride is a violate force.”

— Jean Haus