If someone has enough power to treat anger like a boss, let them destroy it completely. But only if it's the worst kind of anger — savage, inhuman, bloodthirsty, and impossible to cure except by fear of something stronger. Let's give our minds the peace that comes from constantly thinking about good principles, doing good deeds, and focusing only on what's honorable. Let's satisfy our own conscience completely, but don't work to build our reputation. As long as we deserve praise, let's be content — even if people speak badly of us.
If any one's power is so great that he can treat anger with the tone of a superior let him crush it out of existence, but only if it be of the kind of which I have just spoken, fierce, inhuman, bloodthirsty, and incurable save by fear of something more powerful than itself . . . . . . . . let us give the mind that peace which is given by constant meditation upon wholesome maxims, by good actions, and by a mind directed to the pursuit of honour alone. Let us set our own conscience fully at rest, but make no efforts to gain credit for ourselves: so long as we deserve well, let us be satisfied, even if we should be ill spoken of.