Moralia: On The Control Of Anger

He that wishes to come through life safe and sound must continue throughout his life to be under treatment. Anger is a Disease of the Soul I should like an attentive friend of mine to hold a mirror up to me during my moments of rage. For to see oneself in a state which nature did not intend, with one’s features all distorted, contributes in no small degree toward discrediting […]

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Medea

“Medea” by Euripides

Despair, Anger and Hatred “Anger arises from offences against oneself, enmity may arise …because of what we take to be their character. Anger is accompanied by pain, hatred is not;… for the one would have the offenders suffer for what they have done; the other would have them cease to exist.” –Aristotle in “Rhetoric“ Medea,  princess of Colchis and granddaughter of Helios, was both angry and hateful toward her husband Jason, […]

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