Delay the anger

Seneca's practical remedy for anger is delay. The first heat is not yet a verdict about what the other person meant. Wait, and the story often gets smaller. The card is a paraphrase, so the English is a translator's, not a Latin sentence you can treat as a measurement. Saying a translation is faithful is itself a judgement: faithful to which sentence, and by whose standard? Use the delay as a pause before you name a motive.

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”

Seneca · Stoicism

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Paraphrase or translation

Meaning & application

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"This translation is faithful." Why is this not yet a plain fact?

Faithful still needs a standard: faithful in which respect?Translations are treated as things nobody can compare.The wording is taken to say that no fact of any kind exists.Facts are treated as if they had to be claims about numbers.

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The next time you feel a sharp reply, wait one full minute before you send it.

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