Sublime

Though Nice Guys frequently deny ever getting angry, a lifetime of frustration and resentment creates a pressure cooker of repressed rage deep inside these men. This rage tends to erupt at some of the most unexpected and seemingly inappropriate times.

Seneca, who defined anger as the desire for vengeance at an injury (iniuria) and argued that it must be eliminated, was himself motivated by rage against Claudius when he fell in with Agrippina’s plans. There is another veiled gibe implied by the use of the word “benefit” or “favor,” beneficium, since as we shall see, Seneca was to write a treatise