Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
- Source
- Of Anger, Book II
- Date
- c. 45
Meaning of “The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
Delay interrupts the first impulse of anger and gives judgment time to test whether the perceived offence deserves the reaction it initially provoked.
Where does it come from?
On Anger, Book II, section XXIX, Aubrey Stewart’s public-domain translation in Minor Dialogues, cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #64576 and the complete Wikisource Book II transcription. “The greatest remedy for anger is delay” opens Seneca’s practical argument that postponement lets judgment test an offence and can allow anger to subside. It is Roman Stoic moral philosophy rather than modern psychotherapy or clinical anger-management evidence.
