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

ON ANGER, II. XI. 5-xii. 4result should be called a " scare " " ; for to the foolishfooUsh things are terrible. The speeding of the racechariotand the sight of its revohing wheels will driveback lions to their cage, and elephants are terrified bythe squealing of a pig. And so we fear anger just aschildren fear the dark and -svild beasts fear a gaudy;feather. Anger in itself has nothing of the strong J"or the heroic, but shallow minds are affected by it." Wickedness," it is said, " must be eliminated ^'>'y physical endurance subdue the sensation of bothdeat and cold.jtatgment :In the second place, reverse^ thisA man must banish wtue from his heartt)efore he can admit >vrath, since vices do not consortwith virtues, and a man can no more be both angrymd good at the same time than he can be sick andB^ell. " But it is not possible," you say, " to banishmger altogether from the heart, nor does the naturejf man permit it." Yet nothing is so hard andiifficult that it cannot be conquered by the himaannteUect and be brought through persistent study intontimate acquaintance, and there are no passions soierce and self-willed that they cannot be subjugated>y^_discipline. \Vhatever command the mind gives»_ltself holds its ground. Some have reached the)oint^f never smilirigV some have cut themselves offrem Avine, others from sexual pleasure, others fromivery kind of drink ; another, satisfied by shortVOL. I o 193>__