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Of Anger 论愤怒 To seek to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited, and confined, both in race, and in time. We will first speak, how the natural inclination, and habit, to be angry, may be attempered, and calmed.Secondly, how the particular motions of anger may be repressed, or at least refrained from doing mischief.Thirdly, how to raise anger, or appease anger, in another.人要彻底杜绝发怒 — 这只有斯多葛派哲学家才敢如此说。我们有一句更好的神谕：“生气却不要犯罪，不可含怒到日落。”对怒气必须从程度和时间两方面加以控制。我们来讨论其中三点：1）怎样克制和平息发怒的天性和习惯；2）怎样抑制发怒的具体行为，或尽量有所约束，以免造成恶果；3）怎样使别人发怒或息怒。 For the first; there is no other way, but to meditate and ruminate well upon the effects of anger, how it troubles man’s life. And the best time to do this, is to look back upon anger, when the fit is thoroughly over. Seneca saith well; that anger is like ruin, which forsakes itself upon that it falls. The scripture exhorteth us; to possess our souls in patience. Whosoever is out of patience, is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn bees;anunasque in vidnereponunt.针对第一点，最好反复想想发怒的后果，它是怎样扰乱了人们的生活。反思的最佳时机，是在怒气彻底消失之后。萨涅卡说得好：“愤怒犹如堕物，它将自碎于摔落之处。”《圣经》劝导我们“要常存忍耐，就必保全灵魂”。谁丧失了忍耐，谁就丧失了灵魂。人切不可学那蜜蜂：在蜇伤人的同时丢掉了自己的性命。 Anger is certainly a kind of baseness: as it appears well, in the weakness of those subjects, in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear: so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it: which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.发怒无疑是一种低贱的德性，因为像妇女儿童、老头病夫之类的人最容易受它摆布，而且它也最容易在他们处于脆弱的时候出现。特别要注意的是，发怒之时，最好带点嘲弄的意味，千万别夹杂着恐惧；这往往可以让自己免受伤害。这做起来并不难，只需在发怒时让自己按上述原则行事即可。 For the second point; the causes and motives of anger, are chiefly three. First, to be too sensible of hurt: for no man is angry, that feels not himself hurt: and therefore tender and delicate persons must needs be oft a