On Anger
- I must constantly apply therapy to myself in life; to have immunity
- reason must be the therapeutic reason
- people burn to death in homes; like fire, the smoke kills us.
- sea being tossed in storm is like mind with anger
- avoid bitterness
- rationality > anger
- pay attention to early stages of anger
- don’t fuel the fire; and i will put it out
- DONT FUEL THE FIRE
- lower my voice, smile, and stop looking stern (socrates) *** — move in the opposite direction of anger.
- keep quiet; like anger were disease
- Xerxes tried to flog the sea— fool.
- understand anger by watching others (spartans watched drunkenness by watching slaves get drunk) ***
- when I’m angry; be quiet ***
- muscles to fight anger.
- ‘oh dear, can’t you go further away to criticize me?’
- Punishment isn’t divine and olympian— how to be olympian?
- courage needs reason.
- Block up my ears with wax (just in case) i get angry *** — pretend like i didn’t hear.
- ‘stop crying and you can have it’ (to children)
- people are ashamed of being bad***
- reason > passion
- Archery: we are taught not to miss (not to shoot) ***
- if he is guilty today; he will be guilty tomorrow (wait punishment)
- attribute negative action by ignorance, necessity, emotion , or accident (give benefit of the doubt)
- don’t nit-pick in life ***
- be easily pleased.
- be happy to use any utensils; have no preference s***
- ‘I knew my friend was not flawless’ / ‘i knew my wife was a woman’ / ‘i knew i had fathered a mortal’
- Plato: “Am I not like that too?” ***
- Cut back on my nosiness!
- tiny writing hurts our eyes; avoid trivial matters!
- Empedocles: ‘observe a fast from evil’ ***
- ‘holy silence’ – no anger for a year!