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[10]
The Bitter-tempered on the other hand
are implacable, and remain angry a long time,
because they keep their wrath in; whereas when a man retaliates there is an end of the
matter: the pain of resentment is replaced by the pleasure of obtaining redress, and so
his anger ceases. But if they do not retaliate, men continue to labour under a sense of
resentment—for as their anger is concealed no one else tries to placate them
either, and it takes a long time to digest one's wrath within one. Bitterness is the most
trouble some form of bad temper both to a man himself and to his nearest friends.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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