Moral essays. With an English translation by J.W. Basore

'ON ANGER, I. XVI. 2-5held in check by public disgrace. Should it benecessary to brand you in more drastic fashion, AN-ith apunishment you can feel, you shall be sent into exile,banished to an unkno^^-n region. Should your >vickednesshave become deep-rooted, demanding harsherremedies to meet your case, to chains and the stateprisonwe shall have resort. If ^vith mind incurableyou link crime to crime and are actuated no longerby the excuses -which \\i\\ never fail the evil man,but WTong-doing itself becomes to you pretextenough for doing ^\Tong ; if you have drained thecup of AWckedness and its poison has so mingledwith your \itals that it cannot issue forth withoutthem ; if, poor ^^Tetch ! you have long desired todie, then we shall do you good serWce—we shalltake from you that madness by which, while youharass others, you yourself are harassed, and to youwho have long wallowed in the suffering of yourselfand others we shall gladly give the only boon stillleft for you, death ! Why should I be angry with a -fman to \vhoin.I.am giving ^'^'^gp^-^^^****^^ Help 1 Sometimesthe truest form of. pity_ is.to -kill. If withthe training of an expert physician I had entered ahospital or a rich man's household, I should not haveprescribed the same treatment to all, though theirdiseases differed. Diverse, too, are the ills I seein countless minds, and I am called to cure the -Vbodypohtic ; for each man's malady the propertreatment should be sought ; let this one berestored by his o^\ti self-respect, this one by asojourn abroad, this one by pain, this one by poverty,this one by the sword ! Accordingly, even if asa magistrate I must put on my robe a\\Ty and