{"id":23071,"date":"2019-04-25T01:07:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=23071"},"modified":"2019-05-04T01:10:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:10:12","slug":"21-on-anger-de-ira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2019\/04\/21-on-anger-de-ira\/","title":{"rendered":"#21: 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-23072\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anger2.jpg?resize=510%2C464&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anger2.jpg?w=510&amp;ssl=1 510w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anger2.jpg?resize=96%2C87&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anger2.jpg?resize=300%2C273&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\n#21: 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>[58]<br \/>\n<\/strong>No face produced by any emotion is more disturbed than anger&#8217;s: it mars the loveliest visages, contorts the most serene expressions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>[59]<br \/>\n<\/b>As Sextius says, it has often been useful to angry people to look in a mirror. The greatest transformation in themselves has disturbed them; they will have no longer recognized themselves, yet how little or their true deformity was displayed in the image reflected by the mirror!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If the mind could be revealed and could shine out in some concrete form, it would astonish those who saw it &#8211; black, spotted, roiling, twisted, swollen. As things are, its ugliness is so extreme, as it seeps through bones and flesh and so many things in its path; what would it look like if laid bare?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But you may not believe that anyone has been frightened out of his angry state by a mirror? Why is that? Simple: whoever comes to a mirror to change himself has already changed&#8230;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#21: 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-23071","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\/23071","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=23071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}