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

ON ANGER, II. XXI. 3-7child between the two extremes, using now the curb,now_the spm\ He shouM be subjected to nothingthat is humiliating, nothing that is servile ; it shouldnever be necessar}- for him to beg submissively, norshould begging ever prove profitable—rather let hisown desert and his past conduct and good promiseof it in the future be rewarded. In struggles withhis playmates we should not permit him either tobe beaten or to get angry ; we should take pains tosee that he is friendly toward those A^ith whom it ishis practice to engage in order that in the strugglehe may form the habit of wishing not to hurt hisopponent but merely to mn. \Mienever he gets theupper hand and does something praiseworthy, weshould allow him to be encouraged but not elated, forjoy leads to exultation, exultation to over-conceit anda too high opinion of oneself. We shall grant himsome relaxation, though we shall not let him lapseinto sloth and ease, and we shall keep him far fromall taint of pampering ; for there is nothing thatmakes the child hot-tempered so much as a softand coddhng bringing up. Therefore the more anonly child is indulged, and the more liberty a wardis allowed, the more will his disposition be spoiled.He will not withstand rebuffs who has never beendenied anything, whose tears have always beenwiped away by an anxious mother, who has beenallowecl^fo"'have his own way with his tutor." Doyou not observe that ^vith each advancing grade offortune there goes the greater tendency to anger ?It is especially apparent in the rich, in nobles, andin officials when all that was light and tri\ialin "their mind soars aloft upon the breeze of goodfortune. Prosperity fosters wrath when the crowd211