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Seneca had rather a lot of opinions on Anger;- he wrote a book about it.

Among other things he said that Anger 'was a type of temporary madness' and that 'there is nothing useful in anger'.

But then Seneca was a contemporary of Nero (who eventually executed him): when Seneca spoke of anger he probably meant something more extreme than we normally associate with the term.

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