Other vices affect our judgment, anger affects our sanity: others come in mild attacks and grow unnoticed, but men's minds plunge abruptly into anger. There is no passion that is more frantic, more destructive to its own self; it is arrogant if successful, and frantic if it fails. Even when defeated it does not grow weary, but if chance places its foe beyond its reach, it turns its teeth against itself. Its intensity is in no way regulated by its origin: for it rises to the greatest heights from the most trivial beginnings.” (III, i) “While you are angry, you ought not to be allowed to do
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how deep reflections on the nature of this great vice! However, there is an optimistic tune : Anger is not considered undefeatable, as one may think nowadays. Seneca believes that we can defeat it - and so do I !
