The most passionate of Seneca's essays, Of Anger diagnoses what he calls 'a short madness' — the most brutal and dangerous of all the passions. In twelve chapters he traces anger from its physiological origins through its social consequences, arguing that it is never warrantable or useful and that the wise man is proof against it. Seneca's practical advice on suppressing anger before it takes hold remains one of the most compelling treatments of emotional self-mastery in Western philosophy.
12 chapters · Public domain
1
Anger Described, it Is Against Nature, and Only to Be Found in Man
~4 min · 2 pages
›2
The Rise of Anger
~4 min · 2 pages
›3
Anger May Be Suppressed
~6 min · 3 pages
›4
It Is a Short Madness, and a Deformed Vice
~4 min · 2 pages
›5
Anger Is Neither Warrantable nor Useful
~16 min · 8 pages
›6
Anger in General, with the Danger and Effects of it
~17 min · 8 pages
›7
The Ordinary Grounds and Occasions of Anger
~9 min · 5 pages
›8
Advice in the Cases of Contumely and Revenge
~8 min · 4 pages
›9
Cautions Against Anger in the Matter of Education, Converse, and Other General Rules of Preventing It, Both in Ourselves and Others
~11 min · 5 pages
›10
Against Rash Judgment
~7 min · 4 pages
›11
Take Nothing Ill from Another Man, Until You Have Made it Your Own Case
~4 min · 2 pages
›12
Of Cruelty
~8 min · 5 pages
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