“But still anger ought be far from us, for nothing is able to be done rightly nor judiciously with anger.”

Book I, section 38
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)
Variant: In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

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Sed tamen ira procul absit, cum qua nihil recte fieri nec considerate potest.

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