“Anger is useful,’ says our adversary, ‘because it makes men more ready to fight.’
No man becomes braver through anger, except one who without anger would not have been brave at all: anger does not therefore come to assist courage, but to take its place.
Anger brings about nothing grand or beautiful ... to be constantly irritated seems to be the part of a languid and unhappy mind, conscious of its own feebleness.
— Seneca
“When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you’ll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger. Your sense of good and evil may be the same as theirs, or near it, in which case you have to excuse them. Or your sense of good and evil may differ from theirs. In which case they’re misguided and deserve your compassion. Is that so hard?”
— Marcus Aurelius
@thewebrecluse
This is definitely something good to contemplate and meditate upon.
Thanks!