“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”
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Respond to this passageWhere this comes from
Seneca’s three books on anger — what it is, and how not to be governed by it.
Seneca. Roman statesman, playwright and adviser to Nero, born around 4 BCE in Córdoba and forced to take his own life in 65 CE. His moral letters were written late, addressed to his friend Lucilius, and are the most practical writing the Stoics left behind.
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