“An angry countenance is much against nature, and it is oftentimes the proper countenance of them that are at the point of death. But were it so, that all anger and passion were so thoroughly quenched in thee, that it were altogether impossible to kindle it any more, yet herein must not thou rest satisfied, but further endeavour by good consequence of true ratiocination, perfectly to conceive and understand, that all anger and passion is against reason.”
VII, 18
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
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Marcus Aurelius 400
Emperor of Ancient Rome 121–180Related quotes

“Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.”
Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret
imperat.
Book I, epistle ii, line 62
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)

Source: Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

Source: Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731), Ch. 1, sct. 3

“Passion looks like anger to people who aren’t passionate about anything.”