Feb 1: For the hot-headed man
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— MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 11.18.5b
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Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on— it isn’t manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn’t give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage, and endurance—unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.
— MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 11.18.5b