Letter 1635: Anger is a fire: useful when controlled, devastating when unleashed.

Patience under injuries greatly profits the soul, and is to be preferred to the alternative which some say is difficult but which in truth is easy, once one has resolved upon it. For to seek revenge is both burdensome and laborious, and fills the soul with tempests. It is far better to live philosophically. To Orphelius the Grammarian. One must exhort people to abstain from spectacles, O excellent man. If at the theater the lovers of spectacles laugh more softly than is proper, and at the hippodrome they grow angry more than is fitting — there being made effeminate by the shameful dramas, and here being driven to madness by the frenzy of the races (for they nearly imitate the behavior of centaurs) — when will they ever be seen in a proper state? Or when will they do things befitting men? Therefore one must, whether by persuasion or by compulsion, keep such people away from such disorder.