Seneca: On Anger, Book II.29
“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
Reflection
Delay is not suppression; it is giving the wiser part of you time to arrive. The reply you do not send tonight loses nothing by waiting until morning.
Source record
- Author
- Seneca
- Original source
- On Anger, Book II.29
- Original date
- c. 45 AD
- Edition used
- Trans. Aubrey Stewart, 1900 — public domain
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