{"id":23067,"date":"2019-04-22T23:58:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T15:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=23067"},"modified":"2019-04-29T01:25:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T17:25:31","slug":"20-on-anger-de-ira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2019\/04\/20-on-anger-de-ira\/","title":{"rendered":"#20: On Anger (De Ira)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23068\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic14.jpg?resize=406%2C406&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic14.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic14.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic14.jpg?resize=38%2C38&amp;ssl=1 38w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic14.jpg?resize=186%2C186&amp;ssl=1 186w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/stoic14.jpg?resize=184%2C184&amp;ssl=1 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>#20: 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>[55]<\/strong><br \/>\nAnger flares up on both sides and there&#8217;s a clash: the better party is the one that steps back first; it&#8217;s the &#8220;winner&#8221; who&#8217;s defeated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[56]<\/strong><br \/>\nSomeone hits you: retreat. By getting violent in return, you&#8217;ll only give an opening and a pretext for more frequent violence, and you<br \/>\nwon&#8217;t be able to get free of it later when you want to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[57]<\/strong><br \/>\nSurely no one would choose to hit a foe so hard as to have his hand stuck in the would and be unable to withdraw from the blow. But anger is a weapon of just this type; it&#8217;s hard to draw it back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#20: 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-23067","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\/23067","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=23067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}