Great Books Ep 21: From Smoke to Fire: The Blinding, Destructive and Addictive Nature of Anger

Even a good person can become hardened when angry; it darkens a person’s soul like smoke. Anger also can taste sweeter than honey.

“Therefore, perish strife both from among gods and men, and anger, wherein even a righteous man will harden his heart - which rises up in the soul of a man like smoke, and the taste thereof is sweeter than drops of honey.”

~ The Iliad - Book XVIII (Samuel Butler Translation. p131 / v102)

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