Stoic Meditations

473. Anger is like drunkenness, it doesn't help

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Seneca responds somewhat sarcastically to the Aristotelian suggestion that a bit of anger is good because it makes soldiers more willing to fight. So does being drunk, but no general would want a drunken army.