Seneca spent years standing close to one of the most dangerous men in history. As tutor and advisor to the Roman emperor Nero, he watched up close what happens when a powerful person lets anger off its leash. Executions on a whim. Friends turned to enemies overnight. A whole court walking on eggshells. He saw, again and again, that the angry man often did more damage to himself than anyone had ever done to him. So when Seneca wrote that unchecked anger usually hurts us more than the thing that set it off, he was not theorising from a quiet study. He was reporting from the front row.
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