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Counsels and Maxims

by Arthur Schopenhauer

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Section 45 To Speak Angrily to a Person, to Show Your Hatred by

what you say or by the way you look, is an unnecessary proceeding—dangerous, foolish, ridiculous, and vulgar.

Anger and hatred should never be shown otherwise than in what you do; and feelings will be all the more effective in action, in so far as you avoid the exhibition of them in any other way. It is only cold-blooded animals whose bite is poisonous.

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