Anger is what goes beyond reason and sweeps reason away. So that first shock you feel when something seems to hurt you — that's not anger yet. That's just the impression itself. Anger is what comes next: the wild rush that not only receives that impression but treats it as true. Anger is the mind getting excited for revenge, and it comes from choice and deliberate decision. No one has ever doubted that fear makes us run away, and anger makes us charge forward. So ask yourself: do you think we can seek anything or avoid anything without our mind being involved?
Anger is that which goes beyond reason and carries her away with it: wherefore the first confusion of a man's mind when struck by what seems an injury is no more anger than the apparent injury itself: it is the subsequent mad rush, which not only receives the impression of the apparent injury, but acts upon it as true, that is anger, being an exciting of the mind to revenge, which proceeds from choice and deliberate resolve. There never has been any doubt that fear produces flight, and anger a rush forward; consider, therefore, whether you suppose that anything can be either sought or avoided without the participation of the mind.