{"id":23055,"date":"2019-04-22T23:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T15:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=23055"},"modified":"2019-04-29T01:24:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T17:24:51","slug":"17-on-anger-de-ira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2019\/04\/17-on-anger-de-ira\/","title":{"rendered":"#17: 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-23056\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic11.jpg?resize=3840%2C2160&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"3840\" height=\"2160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic11.jpg?w=3840&amp;ssl=1 3840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic11.jpg?resize=96%2C54&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic11.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic11.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic11.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic11.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic11.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>#17: 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>[44]<\/strong><br \/>\nA certain man, unwittingly, in the public bath collided with Marcus Cato (for who would have ever harmed that man knowingly?).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Afterward, when he apologized, Cato said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t remember being bumped.&#8221; He thought it better not to realize than to take revenge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;But,&#8221; you ask, &#8220;did nothing bad happen to that man after such great insolence?&#8221; No indeed, something very good [instead]: he made the<br \/>\nacquaintance of Cato!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It is the mark of a great mind to disregard injuries; it&#8217;s the most insulting way to take revenge if the man from whom one seeks vengeance doesn&#8217;t even seem worth the trouble.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Many have raised small slights to a higher level by avenging them. By contrast, he is a great and noble person who, like a huge wild animal, listens without concern as the little hunting dogs yap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[Cato: A Stoic practitioner and senator of the first century BC, often revered by Seneca as the most morally wise man since Socrates.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#17: 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-23055","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\/23055","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=23055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}