SENECA: Of Anger Books 1-3 - (Audiobook & Notes)

[@VoxStoica]

Amazon link for book: geni.us/AmazonOfAnger Book 2 - 1:05:23 Book 3 - 2:38:40 Summaries: Book 1: 1: Anger is a type of madness. 2: Anger has caused great harm to mankind 3: Anger is unique to humans, animals do not possess true anger. 4: There are many forms of Anger. Irascibility is a general proneness to anger. 5: Anger contradicts all of man’s benevolent qualities such as gentleness, affection and mutual assistance and is therefore not in accordance with nature. 6: Sometimes punishment is necessary. But the purpose of punishment is to correct or heal someone’s behaviour, not to harm them. Anger seeks only to harm so is no necessary for punishment. 7: You shouldn’t attempt to harness anger. Reason is only strong when separate from the passions. Once anger grows it will overpower reason and you will be a slave to it. 8: “The best plan is to reject straightway the first incentives to anger.” 9: If reason is stronger than anger then you don’t need anger, if reason is weaker than anger then it will be overpowered by it. So either anger is useless or uncontrollable. 10: If anger is more powerful than reason, the only way to control it is to set against it a more powerful vice such as fear. Wherefore reason is in the position of flying for aid to vices! 11: Anger does not benefit you in war. You want your attacks to be thought out and orderly, anger is prone to rashness. 12: You can choose to protect or avenge someone out of duty, you don’t need anger to do so. It is also more honourable since you’re doing it from deliberate judgement and not from impulse. The fact that on occasion anger may have done good does not make it a good, any more than a shipwreck benefiting someone makes shipwrecks good. 13: Good qualities become better the stronger they are. Take anger to its extreme and it’s obviously not a good quality. Anger does not assist courage, but takes its place, you’ll note it’s often the weak who are the angriest. 14: Good men should not hate bad men or acts. It is error that leads to bad acts, it makes no sense to hate error. Further you’d end up hating yourself in that case since you also err. 15: Hating a man because he errs is like hating a sick man because he is ill. When you punish someone, it should be for their good, not to satisfy your desires. 16: Anger should play no part in punishment. Punishment should be reasoned and impartial. 17: Anger is not a weapon because it cannot be put down at will. 18: Anger is a terrible judge. It is inconsistent, hasty and can invent crimes where none exist. 19: Irascibility avoids truth because remaining angry feels good. Reason is the better judge. “no wise man punishes any one because he has sinned, but that he may sin no more” 20: Anger affects those of weak minds 21: There is therefore nothing great or noble in anger Book 2 1: Anger is not above the control of reason 2: Some motions like shivering are beyond our control. But anger can be put to flight by wise maxims; for it is a voluntary defect of the mind. 3: Passions begin with impulses. We cannot avoid the impulse, but we can prevent them becoming fully fledged passions. It is a conscious choice to allow it to develop or not. 4: Impulses and emotions differ. Emotions are brought into existence by deliberate mental acts. 5: Anger if too readily indulged it can eventually develop into a permanent character trait of cruelty. 6: Joy at good actions is glorious, anger at bad actions is base. The Wise man will become irascible if always angered by bad deeds. 7: If you’re angry at evil deeds your mood will depend upon others, you will also never cease to be angry since there’s so much evil in the world 8: The mob is fraught with vices 9: If you want to be as angry as men’s crimes require, you will not be angry but go mad with rage. 10: People committing sin is to be expected, it’s foolish to be angry at things you expect. Be not an enemy to but an improver of sinners. 11: Anger is not to be praised for inducing fear. Fear affects feeble minds and there is nothing great in it. 12: It is possible to overcome anger. The mind can carry out whatever orders it gives itself. 13: There’s no need for us to defend anger. Get rid of it. The wise man does his work without the help of any evil passion, especially one which needs to be watched so closely. 14: It is acceptable to feign anger, but not to be angry. Great athletes avoid anger because it clouds judgment. 15: Cultures prone to anger are less successful. 16: We revere wild animals, but they are not to be imitated. Humans possess reason which is superior, and if you imitate anything, imitate God. 17: Don’t be angry but don’t be feeble either. Do be prepared to use force when necessary but not out of anger. 18: Two categories of remedies for anger: Preventing it from arising and avoiding doing wrong when it does arise. 19: Different people have different natural dispositions to anger 20: Those who are predisposed to anger should deliberately avoid arousing it. Those of calmer dispositions should take care to avoid opposite vices such as cowardice, despair and suspiciousness. It’s possible for anger to become a learned habit of the mind. 21: Overindulging or flattering children can lead them to develop angry characters. Raise them in a down to earth manner. It’s a fine balance, subdue their anger, but avoid crushing their spirit. They should focus on conquering their antagonists but not on hurting them. They must earn things by merit and never by begging. 22: To resist anger, focus on its first cause: the belief that we are injured. Allow time to elapse before forming your opinion. 23: Choosing not to feel injured and forgiving wrongs often leads to better outcomes for all. 24: Avoid suspicion and mistrust. Focus on being straightforward and having kindly interpretations of other people’s actions. 25: Luxury leads to irritation at petty things. Toughen up, choose to live a less luxurious life. 26: Inanimate objects, animals and children are ignorant of any wrong they do us. As are foolish men who have little more sense than children. It’s daft to feel anger towards any of them. 27: The universe does not revolve around you; natural events are nothing to be angry at. Punishments received from good men are usually intended for our benefit not harm. 28: No one is faultless. When others sin, remind yourself of the sins you yourself have committed. 29: “The greatest remedy for anger is delay” 30: You can always find a reason to forgive someone. 31: Anger arises from a sense of injury or of unjust treatment 32: It is usually more honorable, and better for all, to ignore transgressions than to avenge them. 33: If you do seek revenge, do so only as a remedy, not out of anger. 34: Meeting other people’s anger with kindness can extinguish the anger. Forgiveness generally yields better results than aggression, as violent acts merely escalate over time. 35: Anger damages itself in its lust for revenge 36: Anger can lead men to ruin and to destroy their own lives. “men have thrust swords through the bodies of those whom they loved, and have slain those in whose arms they have lain”

[@VoxStoica]

Book 3: 1: Treatment depends on the degree of anger and on the personality of the individual. 2: Anger affects all peoples and not just individuals but sometimes entire nations. 3: Despite all its terrible faults, many still believe anger to be a virtue. 4: Anger dominates one’s mind and removes one’s freedom; a man in the grip of anger acts like an animal. 5: To help avoid becoming angry, remind yourself frequently of its vices. How far more glorious it is to be impervious to insults than to revenge them. 6: “There is no greater proof of magnanimity than that nothing which befalls you should be able to move you to anger.” Avoid scattering your attention on many projects or taking on things beyond your ability, doing so leads to anger. 7: Be neither petty nor yet reckless in your projects. Before beginning, estimate your power and the power needed to complete it. Failure moves the hot blooded to anger, the cold blooded to sorrow. 8: Associate with good tempered people, we copy our habits from those around us. Avoid or check disputes before they become rooted and grow. 9: Cut out things that aggravate you, like law courts and politics. You can adjust your life such that you are less exposed to anger. 10: We don’t all take offense in the same way. Determine what your weak point is and guard against it. 11: Don’t go looking for things to take offense at. It is possible to turn offenses into something to be laughed at. 12: Many deliberately make themselves angry in choosing to take offense at trifles. Consider deeply the other person’s perspective and delay your judgement. 13: Our inward thoughts become influenced by our outward behaviour. Control anger if you can, hide its effects if you cannot. 14: It’s entirely possible to restrain anger, as people do so when in extreme fear 15: Even the anger which arises from unheard of outrages can be concealed. Occasionally it is necessary to control anger in this way. 16: Anger results in misery, it is better to endure hardships that to give in to anger. 17: Anger leads one to inhuman acts. 18: Anger becomes addictive. 19: Anger can ruin and tear apart whole nations 20: Anger can lead one to act without thought. 21: Some even become angry with inanimate objects. 22: Expect people to criticise you and learn to accept it when it happens. 23: Just because you’re powerful it doesn’t mean you need to be angry when someone less powerful criticises you. 24: Everyone gives offense at some time and there’s usually a good reason to excuse them, look for it. 25: Everyone makes mistakes. Ponder your own mistakes before becoming angry at others. Becoming angry generally does you more harm than the thing you’re angry at. 26: People making mistakes generally don’t know they are making them, they believe they are in the right. 27: It’s better to heal an injury than avenge it. You will cease to be angry at some point, so why not chose to cease now? 28: It is better to focus on good than on harm. We frequently cause ourselves harm through anger. 29: People frequently become angry wrongly then choose to stay so rather than admit fault. 30: Observe how trifling are the matters that provoke anger 31: Whoever you envy, there are people who envy you. Be grateful for what you have not angry at what you don’t. 32: Let different qualities in different people keep us from quarrelling with them: fear, shame or disdain can all be useful to prevent anger. 33: Goods are not good if they disrupt your tranquillity. 34: It is the setting of great value on trifles and then competition over them that causes anger. 35: Don’t be pretentious or set yourself apart from other people, we are all human, you are nothing special. 36: Toughen your spirit. Ask yourself how you have improved yourself each day. 37: Expect troubles. When encountering rudeness, observe how petty it is and smile to yourself. 38: Respond to insults with humour. 39: Do not attack another’s anger head on. Console them and delay their actions. Aim to let their anger subside somewhat before tackling it. 40: Don’t reprove a man who is still angry. 41: On rare occasions, if someone’s anger is aiming towards inhuman acts, you can use fear to prevent them taking action. 42: Your time is limited, don’t waste it being angry. 43: Death faces us all and is the bigger concern. Don’t trouble yourself with the petty acts of others, focus your time on doing good not evil.

[@halwarner3326]

Thank you so much.

[@tehufn]

You have done a great service, thank you.

[@knowthyself3422]

Since I discovered this channel my life has improved a lot. I am at peace with myself like never before. Thank you for your good work

[@yanbibiya]

Were you an angry person ?

[@knowthyself3422]

@@yanbibiya Exactly, though i cant say that i have completely managed it. But with Seneca's teachings, reason shall prevail over it

[@knowthyself3422]

@@therabaker i keep reminding myself everyday that things will probably not work as i desire and am likely to meet and interact with people who may behave differently. Thats way it helps me to tame my emotions in case my expectations meet unexpected reality. Also, i constantly read and listen to audios like the Meditations by Marcus Aeralius, works of Seneca, and other stuff that make me feel at ease with myself and try to understand people better. I have made it a habit and it is almost a year of practice now.

[@robertburnett5561]

I hope the same for me. But ego fights to the end.

[@jamesharley3783]

Robert......Ego is the enemy it's a daily battle friend

[@MrPloppy1]

Turned this on for my morning commute and nearly instantly found myself in the worst traffic jam of the year. How fortunate for me.

[@genxchas]

While others are road raging nice💯

[@kevlarkevin1840]

I just wanted to say I'm so grateful for this channel existing :) I'm serious, I discovered your full version of Meditations by accident have listened to that book over and over while working out, driving, or doing chores around the house. It's calmed me a great deal despite a lot of the anxiety I face because of a troubled upbringing. I've since recommended that book and your channel to my family and friends in my field of work because I honestly have so much appreciation for the work you've done. God bless you, good sir

[@VoxStoica]

Thanks Kevin, it's touching to know the works have had such a positive impact on your life and it does inspire me to keep making them. Keep working on bettering yourself, physically and mentally, and leave your troubled upbringing behind you. You have my best wishes. (You might also find the audible version of: "A Guide to the Good Life" by William B Irvine useful)

[@esrasees]

Great idea that there are notes available as you read. Great work. Thank you.

[@mmka5434]

Fantastic material, read, voice and so beneficial. Thanks a lot for your excellent job.

[@hammockfinance3028]

"To avoid being angry with individuals, you must pardon the whole mass. You must grant forgiveness to the entire human race. If you are angry with young and old men because they do wrong, you will be angry with infants also for they soon will do wrong. Does anyone become angry with children who are too young to comprehend distinctions? Yet to be a human being is a greater and better excuse than to be a child." Fucking brilliant.

[@Johnconnor806]

So thankful for everyone who has made these uploads available, this has changed my life 🙏

[@Waky18]

You work is highly appreciated Sir, please keep it up! It does as one would hope impact your listeners life in a tremendously positive way!

[@Transportia]

Thich Nhat Hanh is also very good at helping me change the pathways anger has made in my mind. Changing one's mind transforms one's life. It has become much easier with regular practice.

[@tannerhagen774]

I’ve never marked up a book like this before. Every single page is gold!

[@jefferymoore1749]

Thank you for taking the time to post these readings.

[@robertburnett5561]

I enjoy the local "histories". And the last 10 minutes left a great impression. But my old mind still resists. Thanks.

[@jasonp.6470]

These would be great podcasts as well. Cheers!

[@roblee6246]

Thank you for all you've done with this channel.

[@WestCooly]

3:35:00 for my own reference, great recording, it’s nice to see how many people enjoy this as well.

[@PonPon-xq5ki]

Excellent readings :) videos & KZbin channel , please keep doing more!

[@kevintierney5711]

Hey Robin, I hope everything is alright. These videos are really good for me and I hope you publish another one soon :)

[@VoxStoica]

Hi Kevin. Don't worry there will be some more soon, I've just been working on other projects recently. Thanks for the prod :)

[@richardsrensen4219]

thanks for your work on this i appreciate your channel highly

[@georgettesfragranceworld6878]

This got me thinking 🤔 thank you

[@juan4realz942]

In what ways and on what things have you been "thinking" my dear?

[@georgettesfragranceworld6878]

Juan 4Realz well it just gave me a different perspective to my thought process on my reaction to certain people and situations

[@nathanprescott6913]

I was in a great mental space for weeks but something happened recently that threw me off my equilibrium and I’ve been acting needy and emotional I’m trying to get out of this rut with stoicism

[@joshuaking6534]

You're very appreciated.

[@SH-hl3ce]

46:50 Do not envy the prosperity of wicked men. "What indeed is more scandalous that in some cases the very men for whose deserts no fortune could be found bad enough should flourish and actually be the spoiled children of success? Yet the good man will see their affluence without envy, just as he sees their crimes without anger. A good judge condemns wrongful acts, but does not hate them."

[@juan4realz942]

I find it interesting that you like this quote from the book. Seneca, albeit a very wise man. Dabbled in to much of the ideals of moral relativism, instead of recognizing there is a knowable truth of right and wrong. And to be indifferent to a wrong act, in my opinion of course I must preface, is to be an essential beligerent of the continuance of the deeds which (wo)man inherently finds abhorrent in the battlefield of life.

[@edgarchavez882]

Thank you very much for uploading. I really appreciate it.

[@Harleysvideos]

Thank you for these.

[@thetruthwillsetyoufree9209]

Anger can be a force for positive action if channelled skillfully

[@maleautonomy1436]

I like playing these audiobooks with some loft hiphop.

[@robertdeal410]

Love these and thx

[@troyhancock9293]

Great work, thank you again. I was wondering, do you have your summaries typed up for each of your audio books in an accessible document? If you do, do you mind placing them on a public google document so I can see them and print them out? If possible, placing the links in the description or posting the documents somewhere like your channel would be great. Thanks!

[@VoxStoica]

There wasn't space in the description for all three books summaries, I'll pin them in this comment: Book 1: 1: Anger is a type of madness. 2: Anger has caused great harm to mankind 3: Anger is unique to humans, animals do not possess true anger. 4: There are many forms of Anger. Irascibility is a general proneness to anger. 5: Anger contradicts all of man’s benevolent qualities such as gentleness, affection and mutual assistance and is therefore not in accordance with nature. 6: Sometimes punishment is necessary. But the purpose of punishment is to correct or heal someone’s behaviour, not to harm them. Anger seeks only to harm so is no necessary for punishment. 7: You shouldn’t attempt to harness anger. Reason is only strong when separate from the passions. Once anger grows it will overpower reason and you will be a slave to it. 8: “The best plan is to reject straightway the first incentives to anger.” 9: If reason is stronger than anger then you don’t need anger, if reason is weaker than anger then it will be overpowered by it. So either anger is useless or uncontrollable. 10: If anger is more powerful than reason, the only way to control it is to set against it a more powerful vice such as fear. Wherefore reason is in the position of flying for aid to vices! 11: Anger does not benefit you in war. You want your attacks to be thought out and orderly, anger is prone to rashness. 12: You can choose to protect or avenge someone out of duty, you don’t need anger to do so. It is also more honourable since you’re doing it from deliberate judgement and not from impulse. The fact that on occasion anger may have done good does not make it a good, any more than a shipwreck benefiting someone makes shipwrecks good. 13: Good qualities become better the stronger they are. Take anger to its extreme and it’s obviously not a good quality. Anger does not assist courage, but takes its place, you’ll note it’s often the weak who are the angriest. 14: Good men should not hate bad men or acts. It is error that leads to bad acts, it makes no sense to hate error. Further you’d end up hating yourself in that case since you also err. 15: Hating a man because he errs is like hating a sick man because he is ill. When you punish someone, it should be for their good, not to satisfy your desires. 16: Anger should play no part in punishment. Punishment should be reasoned and impartial. 17: Anger is not a weapon because it cannot be put down at will. 18: Anger is a terrible judge. It is inconsistent, hasty and can invent crimes where none exist. 19: Irascibility avoids truth because remaining angry feels good. Reason is the better judge. “no wise man punishes any one because he has sinned, but that he may sin no more” 20: Anger affects those of weak minds 21: There is therefore nothing great or noble in anger Book 2 1: Anger is not above the control of reason 2: Some motions like shivering are beyond our control. But anger can be put to flight by wise maxims; for it is a voluntary defect of the mind. 3: Passions begin with impulses. We cannot avoid the impulse, but we can prevent them becoming fully fledged passions. It is a conscious choice to allow it to develop or not. 4: Impulses and emotions differ. Emotions are brought into existence by deliberate mental acts. 5: Anger if too readily indulged it can eventually develop into a permanent character trait of cruelty. 6: Joy at good actions is glorious, anger at bad actions is base. The Wise man will become irascible if always angered by bad deeds. 7: If you’re angry at evil deeds your mood will depend upon others, you will also never cease to be angry since there’s so much evil in the world 8: The mob is fraught with vices 9: If you want to be as angry as men’s crimes require, you will not be angry but go mad with rage. 10: People committing sin is to be expected, it’s foolish to be angry at things you expect. Be not an enemy to but an improver of sinners. 11: Anger is not to be praised for inducing fear. Fear affects feeble minds and there is nothing great in it. 12: It is possible to overcome anger. The mind can carry out whatever orders it gives itself. 13: There’s no need for us to defend anger. Get rid of it. The wise man does his work without the help of any evil passion, especially one which needs to be watched so closely. 14: It is acceptable to feign anger, but not to be angry. Great athletes avoid anger because it clouds judgment. 15: Cultures prone to anger are less successful. 16: We revere wild animals, but they are not to be imitated. Humans possess reason which is superior, and if you imitate anything, imitate God. 17: Don’t be angry but don’t be feeble either. Do be prepared to use force when necessary but not out of anger. 18: Two categories of remedies for anger: Preventing it from arising and avoiding doing wrong when it does arise. 19: Different people have different natural dispositions to anger 20: Those who are predisposed to anger should deliberately avoid arousing it. Those of calmer dispositions should take care to avoid opposite vices such as cowardice, despair and suspiciousness. It’s possible for anger to become a learned habit of the mind. 21: Overindulging or flattering children can lead them to develop angry characters. Raise them in a down to earth manner. It’s a fine balance, subdue their anger, but avoid crushing their spirit. They should focus on conquering their antagonists but not on hurting them. They must earn things by merit and never by begging. 22: To resist anger, focus on its first cause: the belief that we are injured. Allow time to elapse before forming your opinion. 23: Choosing not to feel injured and forgiving wrongs often leads to better outcomes for all. 24: Avoid suspicion and mistrust. Focus on being straightforward and having kindly interpretations of other people’s actions. 25: Luxury leads to irritation at petty things. Toughen up, choose to live a less luxurious life. 26: Inanimate objects, animals and children are ignorant of any wrong they do us. As are foolish men who have little more sense than children. It’s daft to feel anger towards any of them. 27: The universe does not revolve around you; natural events are nothing to be angry at. Punishments received from good men are usually intended for our benefit not harm. 28: No one is faultless. When others sin, remind yourself of the sins you yourself have committed. 29: “The greatest remedy for anger is delay” 30: You can always find a reason to forgive someone. 31: Anger arises from a sense of injury or of unjust treatment 32: It is usually more honorable, and better for all, to ignore transgressions than to avenge them. 33: If you do seek revenge, do so only as a remedy, not out of anger. 34: Meeting other people’s anger with kindness can extinguish the anger. Forgiveness generally yields better results than aggression, as violent acts merely escalate over time. 35: Anger damages itself in its lust for revenge 36: Anger can lead men to ruin and to destroy their own lives. “men have thrust swords through the bodies of those whom they loved, and have slain those in whose arms they have lain”

[@VoxStoica]

Book 3: 1: Treatment depends on the degree of anger and on the personality of the individual. 2: Anger affects all peoples and not just individuals but sometimes entire nations. 3: Despite all its terrible faults, many still believe anger to be a virtue. 4: Anger dominates one’s mind and removes one’s freedom; a man in the grip of anger acts like an animal. 5: To help avoid becoming angry, remind yourself frequently of its vices. How far more glorious it is to be impervious to insults than to revenge them. 6: “There is no greater proof of magnanimity than that nothing which befalls you should be able to move you to anger.” Avoid scattering your attention on many projects or taking on things beyond your ability, doing so leads to anger. 7: Be neither petty nor yet reckless in your projects. Before beginning, estimate your power and the power needed to complete it. Failure moves the hot blooded to anger, the cold blooded to sorrow. 8: Associate with good tempered people, we copy our habits from those around us. Avoid or check disputes before they become rooted and grow. 9: Cut out things that aggravate you, like law courts and politics. You can adjust your life such that you are less exposed to anger. 10: We don’t all take offense in the same way. Determine what your weak point is and guard against it. 11: Don’t go looking for things to take offense at. It is possible to turn offenses into something to be laughed at. 12: Many deliberately make themselves angry in choosing to take offense at trifles. Consider deeply the other person’s perspective and delay your judgement. 13: Our inward thoughts become influenced by our outward behaviour. Control anger if you can, hide its effects if you cannot. 14: It’s entirely possible to restrain anger, as people do so when in extreme fear 15: Even the anger which arises from unheard of outrages can be concealed. Occasionally it is necessary to control anger in this way. 16: Anger results in misery, it is better to endure hardships that to give in to anger. 17: Anger leads one to inhuman acts. 18: Anger becomes addictive. 19: Anger can ruin and tear apart whole nations 20: Anger can lead one to act without thought. 21: Some even become angry with inanimate objects. 22: Expect people to criticise you and learn to accept it when it happens. 23: Just because you’re powerful it doesn’t mean you need to be angry when someone less powerful criticises you. 24: Everyone gives offense at some time and there’s usually a good reason to excuse them, look for it. 25: Everyone makes mistakes. Ponder your own mistakes before becoming angry at others. Becoming angry generally does you more harm than the thing you’re angry at. 26: People making mistakes generally don’t know they are making them, they believe they are in the right. 27: It’s better to heal an injury than avenge it. You will cease to be angry at some point, so why not chose to cease now? 28: It is better to focus on good than on harm. We frequently cause ourselves harm through anger. 29: People frequently become angry wrongly then choose to stay so rather than admit fault. 30: Observe how trifling are the matters that provoke anger 31: Whoever you envy, there are people who envy you. Be grateful for what you have not angry at what you don’t. 32: Let different qualities in different people keep us from quarrelling with them: fear, shame or disdain can all be useful to prevent anger. 33: Goods are not good if they disrupt your tranquillity. 34: It is the setting of great value on trifles and then competition over them that causes anger. 35: Don’t be pretentious or set yourself apart from other people, we are all human, you are nothing special. 36: Toughen your spirit. Ask yourself how you have improved yourself each day. 37: Expect troubles. When encountering rudeness, observe how petty it is and smile to yourself. 38: Respond to insults with humour. 39: Do not attack another’s anger head on. Console them and delay their actions. Aim to let their anger subside somewhat before tackling it. 40: Don’t reprove a man who is still angry. 41: On rare occasions, if someone’s anger is aiming towards inhuman acts, you can use fear to prevent them taking action. 42: Your time is limited, don’t waste it being angry. 43: Death faces us all and is the bigger concern. Don’t trouble yourself with the petty acts of others, focus your time on doing good not evil.

[@SH-hl3ce]

Question: 26:00 Anger is defined as unbridled. When anger is subordinate to reason and is useful it should not be called anger. What is this good kind of anger called then?

[@anthonypeltier4039]

Righteousness possibly, a sum of justice and industriousness, ie., this is the right thing to do, I have to do the right thing, therefore I have to do this thing no matter efforts required. Not anger but persistent effort in light of reason

[@anthonypeltier4039]

Keep in mind then that anger is not subdued by reason, until you've either calmed down or another vice has taken its place.

[@juan4realz942]

Righteous indignation

[@animepeople9161]

" A moderate passion is a moderate evil" This is very unlike anything you hear now

[@SH-hl3ce]

2. Xx understand your predispositions to vices and hie to avoid these 2. Xxi 1:52:00 education of children Xxii 1:57:00 2:21:00 it is a crime to injure one's country. So it is, therefore, to injure any of our countrymen, for he is a part of our country. If tge whole be sacred, then the part must be sacred too. Therefore it is also a crime to injure any man, for he is your fellow citizen in a larger state. This 2:15:00 This is the worst trait of minds rendered arrogant by prosperity: they hate those whom they have injured 2:35:00 often more expedient to not acknowledge an injury than to avenge it 2:34:00 Anger as demons from the netherworld come to sow conflict among men 2:43:00 3.ii when anger seizes an entire nation - the masses wage war against a neighbour or against their own countrymen. Wholesale massacre. Fascism and revolutions. 2:54:20 A man must think himself inferior to one by whom he thinks himself despised. Whereas the truly great mind, who takes a good estimate of its value, does not revenge an insult, because it does not feel it. 2:59:00 3.vii 3:00:27 viii 3:10:00 destroy own peace of mind by over inquisitedness 3:14:00 Plato's self restrain restrain on anger 3:17:00 xiii beg your friend to comment your bad behaviour. Esp in times when we can bear it last 3:22:00 xv Suicide justified as cescape from abominable outrage... "so ling as we find Notting in our lives so ubearable as to drive us to commit suicide, let us in whatever position we may be set anger far from us" Div "the only way to alleviate feast evils is to ensure them and to submit to do what they compel" "All is lost when a man's position enables him to carry out whatever anger prompts him to do. Nor can power long endure if it is exercised to the injury of many. For it veconws endangered as soon as common fear draws together those who bewailed themselves separately. Many kings therefore have fallen victims, some to single individuals, s others to entire peoples, who have been forced by general indignation to make one man the minister of their wrath" 3:30:00 of degrading punishment: "however unlike a man he was who suffered this, even more unlike was he who inflicted it " Emperor Gallius Caesar total psycho! Folly huck It's about "the ferocity of anger, which does not merely vent its rage upon individuals but rends into pieces whole nations" 3:36:00 "the Ethiopians, on account of their prodigiously long lives, are called macrobiote" 3:40:00 xxii 3:42:00 xxiii 3:52:00 "everyone of us will find in his own breast the vice which he blames in another... let us therefore be more gentle one to another. We are bad men living among bad men. There is only one thing which can afford us peace and that is to agree to forgive one another 3:53:00 Better to heal an injury than to avenge it. Take the opposite course and not meet one mischief by another 4:07:00 xxxiii quote on money 4:09:50 "it is the setting of a great value on trifles that is the cause of our anger and madness " 4:11:00 " you have wars not merely that you may listen to pleasabt musical sounds. You ought to hear laughter and weeping, coaxing and quarelling, joy and sorrow, ... you cannot help hearing the thunder no matter how refined you may be 4:14:00 Make an honest review of your day's acts daily before sleep and say "I pardon you this time. See that you never do this anymore" 4:15:00 "look carefully not only to the truth of what you say but also whether the person to whom you speak can bear to be told the truth" 4:26:00 "Nothing will be of greater service than to bear in mind that we are mortal. Let each man say to himself and to his neighbour: why should we as though we were born to live forever, waste our tiny span of time declaring anger against anyone. Why should days which we might spend in honourable enjoyment be misapplied for grieving and torturing others"

[@ronaldwhite6476]

I just don’t get it I listen to this but get nothing out of it that is helpful. I’ve always known I was stupid but I really need this to help me.

[@zackcash4941]

"As for nature"

[@HP-ht6oz]

I need subtitle...

[@SKDYCAT]

36:45

[@DjTahoun]

🌷😇🌷

[@DjTahoun]

30:00

[@DjTahoun]

2:20:00

[@DjTahoun]

2:38:50

[@fntmworks]

Wisdom your ancestors failed to pass on to you. Better late than never.

[@dibble2005]

I'm always angry!! Its life under Fianna Gael.

[@MrIdgaflolxd]

[@alfjeezy7049]

I still get fuckin angry and that gets me mad.

[@Joepipsquiggle]

I disagree with this talk.

[@sash0047]

Write down a letter on disagreeing

[@christiancardenas6811]

Why?

[@sl3ptsolong]

They'll give you a form to complain.

[@juan4realz942]

I'm assuming this man would be perplexed by the seemingly moral relativism that permeates his writings. But remember, he was a man just like you or me. Albeit very wise and thoughtful, still isn't infallible in his words or actions.... This always must be takin into consideration by the student of a sound mind in order to gain maximum knowledge from the souls that enter and exit this realm, leaving crumbs of the higher ineffable self as morcels to snack on.