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		<title>Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- De Officiis [On Duties; On Moral Duty; The Offices], Book 1, ch. 38 (1.38) / sec. 136 (44 BC) [tr. Miller (1913)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We may seem angry, but anger should be far from us; for in anger nothing right or judicious can be done. [Sed tamen ira procul absit, cum qua nihil recte fieri nec considerate potest.] (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: We must be sure, as was said, to avoid all anger; for whatsoever is guided by its [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We may seem angry, but anger should be far from us; for in anger nothing right or judicious can be done.</p>
<p><em>[Sed tamen ira procul absit, cum qua nihil recte fieri nec considerate potest.]</em></p>
<br><b>Marcus Tullius Cicero</b> (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher<br><i>De Officiis [On Duties; On Moral Duty; The Offices]</i>, Book 1, ch. 38 (1.38) / sec. 136 (44 BC) [tr. Miller (1913)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2007.01.0048:book=1:section=136&highlight=anger+nothing%2C#note-link1:~:text=in%20anger%20nothing%20right%20or%20judicious%20can%20be%20done" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0047%3Abook%3D1%3Asection%3D136#text_main:~:text=sed%20tamen%20ira%20procul%20absit%2Ccum%20qua%20nihil%20recte%20fieri%2C%20nihil%20considerate%20potest">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>We must be sure, as was said, to avoid all anger; for whatsoever is guided by its influence and directions can never be done with any prudence or moderation.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/officeswithlaeli00cice/page/60/mode/2up?q=xxxviii#BookReader:~:text=we%20must%20be%20sure%2C%20as%20was,done%20with%20any%20prudence%20or%20moderation.">Cockman</a> (1699)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But still, let anger be remote; for under its influence our conduct cannot be upright or deliberate.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/officeswithlaeli00cice/page/60/mode/2up?q=xxxviii#BookReader:~:text=we%20must%20be%20sure%2C%20as%20was,done%20with%20any%20prudence%20or%20moderation.">McCartney</a> (1798)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But still, let all passion be avoided; for with that nothing can be done with rectitude, nothing with discretion.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/cicerosthreeboo00cice/page/66/mode/2up?q=xxxviii#BookReader:~:text=but%20still%2C%20let%20all%20passion%20be,done%20with%20rectitude%2C%20nothing%20with%20discretion">Edmonds</a> (1865)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Anger itself we must put far away, for with it we can do nothing right or well-advised.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/deofficiis00cicegoog/page/n85/mode/2up?q=%22do+nothing+right%22">Gardiner</a> (1899)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>All things considered, you should avoid anger; nothing good or courteous happens when men are angry.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/deofficiisonduti00cice/page/62/mode/2up?q=%22should+avoid+anger%22">Edinger</a> (1974)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But still anger ought be far from us, for nothing is able to be done rightly nor judiciously with anger.<br>
[<a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cicero#:~:text=But%20still%20anger%20ought%20be%20far%20from%20us%2C%20for%20nothing%20is%20able%20to%20be%20done%20rightly%20nor%20judiciously%20with%20anger.">Source</a>]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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