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On Anger

De Ira

Seneca·Latin

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Three books arguing that anger is never useful, always destructive, and can be prevented by training the mind to pause before reacting.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. No one says, let me be angry longer than is right: let me enjoy my anger.

The best plan is to reject straightaway the first incentives to anger, to resist its very beginnings, and to take care not to be betrayed into it. For if once it begins to carry us away, it is hard to get back again into a healthy condition.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

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