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Friday, April 23, 2021
Anger
Horace, Epistles 1.2.62 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough):
Anger is short-lived madness.
ira furor brevis est.
Seneca, On Anger 1.1.2 (tr. John W. Basore):
Certain wise men, therefore, have claimed that anger is temporary madness.
quidam itaque e sapientibus viris iram dixerunt brevem insaniam.