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Seneca:Seneca's Morals, Excerpt 85

Seneca《Seneca's Morals》· Seneca's Morals · Health · Cognition · Growth · Human nature

When men’s minds are struck with the opinion of an injury, they fall on immediately wheresoever their passion leads them, without either order, fear, or caution: provoking their own mischief; never at rest till they come to blows; and pursuing their revenge, even with their bodies, upon the points of their enemies’ weapons. So that the anger itself is much more hurtful for us than the injury that provokes it; for the one is bounded, but where the other will stop, no man living knows. There are no greater slaves certainly, than those that serve anger; for they improve their misfortunes by an impatience more insupportable than the calamity that causes it.

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Locator:Excerpt 85 · Verified:2026-10-19 · Verification:Short excerpt

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