APRIL 14
"Consider how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved."
Marcus Aurelius.
"The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humour of others."
Empson.
"Do we not know that the storm of feeling can be checked, if only we can prevent the first word from being spoken, the first gesture from being made. And is it not matter of common observation that persons who begin by being Stoics in demeanour end by becoming Stoics in reality?"
The Making of Character, Professor MacCunn.
APRIL 15