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"Mankind is born for mutual assistance, anger for mutual ruin: the former loves society, the latter estrangement."
Seneca. On Anger
Seneca. On Anger
.... "The one loves to do good, the other to do harm ; the one to help even strangers, the other to attack even its dearest friends.
The one is ready even to sacrifice itself for the good of others, the other to plunge into peril provided it drags others with it."
The one is ready even to sacrifice itself for the good of others, the other to plunge into peril provided it drags others with it."
"The best plan is to reject straightway 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...
", because reason goes for nothing when once passion has been admitted to the mind, and has by our own free will been given a certain authority, it will for the future do as much as it chooses, not only as much as you will allow it."
"whereas anger is in a hurry: reason wishes to give a just decision; anger wishes its decision to be thought just: reason looks no further than the matter in hand; anger is excited by empty matters hovering on the outskirts of the case"
"Anger has no ground to stand upon, and does not rise from a firm and enduring foundation, but is a windy, empty quality, as far removed from true magnanimity as fool-hardiness from courage, boastfulness from confidence, gloom from austerity, cruelty from strictness. "
"There is, I say, a great difference between a lofty and a proud mind: anger brings about nothing grand or beautiful."
