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Let us now consider the point that Unrestraint in anger1 is less disgraceful than Unrestraint in the desires.
Now it appears that anger does to some extent hear reason, but hears it wrong, just as
hasty servants hurry out of the room before they have heard the whole of what you are
saying, and so mistake your order, and as watch-dogs bark at a mere knock at the door,
without waiting to see if it is a friend. Similarly anger, owing to the heat and swiftness
of its nature, hears, but does not hear the order given, and rushes off to take vengeance.
When reason or imagination suggests that an insult or slight has been received, anger
flares up at once, but after reasoning as it were that you ought to make war on anybody
who insults you. Desire on the other hand, at a mere hint from [the reason
or2] the senses that a thing is pleasant, rushes off to enjoy
it. Hence
anger follows reason in a manner, but desire does not. Therefore yielding to desire is
more disgraceful than yielding to anger, for he that fails to restrain his anger is in a
way controlled by reason, but the other3 is controlled not by reason but by desire.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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