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By Seneca
The greatest remedy for anger is delay: beg anger to grant you this at the first, not in order that it may pardon the offence, but that it may form a right judgment about it: if it delays, it will come to an end.
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- Of Anger, Book II, in Minor Dialogues (translated by Aubrey Stewart), 1889 · Of Anger, Book II, chapter XXIX, p. 104
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- Translated by Aubrey Stewart (George Bell and Sons, London, 1889); Project Gutenberg text, eBook #64576
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From Of Anger (De Ira), Book II, chapter XXIX, in Aubrey Stewart's English translation (London, 1889). Seneca addressed it to his brother Novatus. Seneca wrote in Latin, so this is the translator's wording.