{"id":23041,"date":"2019-04-22T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=23041"},"modified":"2019-04-29T01:24:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T17:24:15","slug":"14-on-anger-de-ira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2019\/04\/14-on-anger-de-ira\/","title":{"rendered":"#14: On Anger (De Ira)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23042\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic8.jpg?resize=740%2C416&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic8.jpg?w=740&amp;ssl=1 740w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic8.jpg?resize=96%2C54&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic8.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>#14: On Anger (De Ira)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Quotes that resonate, from &#8216;How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management&#8217; by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[32]<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s an illness or a catastrophe: it will pass more gently if you bear up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[33]<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a bad man: don&#8217;t be surprised. He&#8217;ll pay to another the penalty that he owes to you, and indeed he already penalizes himself by doing wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[34]<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s either our ignorance or our arrogance that makes us prone to anger. For what is surprising if wicked people do wicked things?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[35]<\/strong><br \/>\nThink everything might happen; anticipate everything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[36]<\/strong><br \/>\nEven if good characters there is something unsavoury. Human nature contains treacherous thoughts, ungrateful ones, greedy and wicked<br \/>\nones. When you assess the character of one person, consider that of the populace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#14: On Anger (De Ira) Quotes that resonate, from &#8216;How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}