In bold, proud natures there is only one step from anger against themselves to wrath against others.
 Stendhal, The Red and the Black (1830). copy citation

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Author Stendhal
Source The Red and the Black
Topic anger
Date 1830
Language English
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Note Translated by Horace B. Samuel
Weblink https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Red_and_the_Black

Context

“She felt to some extent pulverised by the idea of having given a little abbé, who was the son of a peasant, rights over her. "It is almost," she said to herself, in those moments when she exaggerated her own misfortune, "as though I had a weakness for one of my footmen to reproach myself with." In bold, proud natures there is only one step from anger against themselves to wrath against others. In these cases the very transports of fury constitute a vivid pleasure. In a single minute mademoiselle de la Mole reached the point of loading Julien with the signs of the most extreme contempt. She had infinite wit, and this wit was always triumphant in the art of torturing vanity and wounding it cruelly.” source