"No man becomes braver through anger, except one who without anger would not have been brave at all; anger does not therefore come to assist courage, but to take its place. What are we to say to the argument that, if anger were a good thing, it would attach itself to all the best men? Yet the most irascible of creatures are infants, old men, and sick people. Every weakling is naturally prone to complaint.”

Seneca, On Anger, 13

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