<p><em style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">Anybody can become angry—that is easy … but to be angry with … the right person, and to the right amount, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way—this is not within everybody’s power and is not easy; so that to do [this] properly is rare, praiseworthy, and noble.</em></p>
Nicomachean Ethics (2:9:2), p. 111
<p>Aristotle stands forth as the defender of anger, and forbids us to cut it out; it is, he claims, a spur to virtue, and if the mind be robbed of it, it becomes defenseless and grows sluggish and indifferent to high endeavor.</p>
On Anger (3:3:1-2), p. 259 – unlike the Gospels, Aristotle realizes the positive role of negative emotions
– unlike the Gospels, Aristotle realizes the positive role of negative emotions
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