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> [Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/hesitation-is-the-best-cure-for-anger-the-first-blows-of-anger-are/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

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> [The best cure for anger is delay.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/the-best-cure-for-anger-is-delay/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

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> [It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/it-is-part-of-the-cure-to-wish-to-be-cured/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

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> [Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/solitude-and-company-may-be-allowed-to-take-their-turns-the-one/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

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> [Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/some-cures-are-worse-than-the-dangers-they-combat/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

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> [Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/where-reason-fails-time-oft-has-worked-a-cure/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

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## Other authors on Cures

## More by Seneca the Younger

> [There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/there-is-nothing-that-we-can-properly-call-our-own-but-our-time-and/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

> [It is for the superfluous we sweat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/it-is-for-the-superfluous-we-sweat/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

> [Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/men-trust-rather-to-their-eyes-than-to-their-ears-the-effect-of/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

> [A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/a-great-step-towards-independence-is-a-good-humored-stomach-one-that/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

> [Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/men-can-be-divided-into-2-groups-one-that-goes-ahead-and-achieves/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

> [Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/leisure-without-study-is-death-and-the-grave-of-a-living-man/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

> [Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/such-as-the-chain-of-causes-we-call-fate-such-is-the-chain-of-wishes/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

> [To rule yourself is the ultimate power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/to-rule-yourself-is-the-ultimate-power/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

> [The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/the-road-by-precepts-is-tedious-by-example-short-and-efficacious/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

> [Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/misfortune-is-the-test-of-a-person-s-merit/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

> [He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/he-who-does-not-want-to-die-should-not-want-to-live-for-life-is/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

> [Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/let-us-not-seek-our-disease-out-of-ourselves-tis-in-us-and-planted-in/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

> [After death there is nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/after-death-there-is-nothing/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

> [Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/adversity-finds-at-last-the-man-whom-she-has-often-passed-by/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

> [Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/hesitation-is-the-best-cure-for-anger-the-first-blows-of-anger-are/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

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