Seneca: De ira

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Necesse est multo timeat, quem multi timent. - De Ira (II, 11)

He must necessarily fear much the one, whom many fear.

     

Maximum remedium est irae mora. - De Ira (II, 28)

Delay is the greatest remedy for anger.

     

Magna pars hominum est, quae non peccatis irascitur sed peccantibus. - De Ira (II, 28)

The greater part of mankind are angry with the sinner and not with the sin.

 

Omnes mali sumus. Quidquid itaque in alio reprehenditur, id unusquisque in suo sinu inveniet. - De Ira (III, 26)

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.