Show REMEDY FOR ANGER I 1 the greatest remedy for anger is delay beg anger P to grant you this at the first not in order that it may pardon the offense but that it may form a right judgment about it if it delays it will come to an end do not attempt to quell it all at once for its first impulses are fierce by plucking away its parts we shall remove the whole we are made angry by some things which we learn at second secondhand hand and by some things which we ourselves hear or see now we ought to be slow to believe what is told us if YO you U were about to give sentence in court about ever so small a sum of money you would take nothing as proved without a witness and a witness would count for nothing except on his oath you would allow both sides to b be heard you would allow them time seneca I 1 |