Anger
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On Anger
The central passion examined in the treatise: defined as a brief madness and a craving to exact punishment or pay back pain, analyzed for its causes, symptoms, species, relation to nature, and usefulness, and ultimately condemned as unnatural, ungovernable, and useless even in war or punishment.
anger is in haste.
reason is constant.
anger cast them down.
De legendis gentilium libris
The passion of wrath which the passage counsels restraining through reason and example.
" Rather one must, above all, not rouse oneself to anger at all;
How greatly worth it is that some such example should enter the memory of a man already mastered by anger!
Tusculan Disputations
The passion of irascibility, analyzed as a form of madness contrary to reason
shall we say, then, that madness is useful?
Or is there anything more like madness than anger?
For what is there to which anger does not advance, to the same point as fury?
Meditations
A passion treated as weakness and desertion from reason, to be replaced by gentleness.
For dwelling on this you will quickly forget your anger, when it also occurs to you that he is under compulsion;
that it is not anger that is manly, but that gentleness and mildness, as they are more human, so are they more manly;
For the movement toward wrongdoing and licence, toward anger and grief and fear, is nothing but that of one departing from nature.
Letters to Lucilius
A destructive passion discussed at the close of Letter 18, said to lead to madness.
"Excessive anger begets madness.
the outcome of a mighty anger is madness, and therefore anger is to be avoided, not for the sake of moderation, but for the sake of sanity.
De Oratione
Anger, forbidden before prayer and equated by Christ with a form of murder.
Thereupon the Lord, openly enlarging the law, sets anger against a brother above murder.
And the intentness of prayer ought to be free not only from anger, but from every disturbance of mind whatsoever, sent forth from such a spirit as is the Spirit to which it is sent.
De Patientia
Personified as the offspring of impatience, trained to begin with murder, and the proximate cause of many sins.
For at once that impatience, conceived from the seed of the devil, by the fruitfulness of malice brought forth a son, Anger, and when he was born trained him in its own arts.