One person is ready to sacrifice themselves for others. Another person rushes into danger just to drag others down with them. So who could be more wrong about human nature than someone who calls this cruel and harmful vice one of nature's finest creations? Anger, as we've said, wants to punish people. But having that urge in our peaceful hearts goes against everything we are. Human life is built on kindness and cooperation. We come together to help each other — not through fear, but through love.
The one is ready even to sacrifice itself for the good of others, the other to plunge into peril provided it drags others with it. Who, then, can be more ignorant of nature than he who classes this cruel and hurtful vice as belonging to her best and most polished work? Anger, as we have said, is eager to punish; and that such a desire should exist in man's peaceful breast is least of all according to his nature; for human life is founded on benefits and harmony, and is bound together into an alliance for the common help of all, not by terror, but by love towards one another.