1 - Everything that is not under our control is neither good nor bad and therefore nothing to us. [Epictetus, D 2.1] 

2 - Life is short. Get as much as you can from each passing hour. Obey reason, be just. Be flexible, but be moderate. [Marcus Aurelius, M 4.26] 

3 - People wander aimlessly, travel to distant places, sometimes by sea, sometimes by land. They try to reduce the pain of aimlessness that is always dissatisfied with the present. [Seneca, T 2] 

4 - We act like deer that...seek safety in hunter’s nets. [Epictetus, D 2.1] 

5 - The universe is either all order or all random and disorderly mishmash. How can there be order in you if the universe (of which you are a part) is disorderly? [Marcus Aurelius, M 4.26] 

6 - We must understand.that what we suffer from is not the fault of the places, but of ourselves. [Seneca, T 2] 

7 - Death and pain are not frightening, but the fear of death and pain are. [Epictetus, D 2.1] 

8 - A dark heart is unmanly, stubborn. The heart of an animal, a beast of the field, is childish, stupid, and false. A huckster’s heart. A tyrant’s heart. [Marcus Aurelius, M 4.28] 

9 - The best course is to get involved in one’s day-to-day affairs, affairs of the state, and the duties of a citizen. [Seneca, T 2] 

10 - Be confident in what does not depend on our choice and be cautious in what does. [Epictetus, D 2.1] 

11 - If you don’t know what is in the universe, or how it works, you are a stranger here. You are an exile. You have banished yourself from the state of reason. [Marcus Aurelius, M 4.29] 

12 - You should only withdraw in seclusion such that whatever time you spend this way would still benefit individuals and the world at large—through your intellect, your voice, and your advice. [Seneca, T 3] 

13 - Death is no ill, but dying like a coward is. [Epictetus, D 2.1] 

14 - You are a blot on the world when you detach yourself from the laws of our common nature by refusing to accept what life assigns to you. [Marcus Aurelius, M 4.29] 

15 - As soon as you devote yourself to philosophy, you will overcome all disgust at life. You will not wish for nightfall because you are wary of daylight. Nor will you be trouble to yourself and useless to others. You will win many friends, and people of great merit will be attracted to you.[Seneca, T 3] 

16 - Sooner or later, body and soul will separate, as they formerly were. Why be upset if it happens now? If it is not now, it will be later. [Epictetus, D2.1] 

17 - One philosopher has no books, another, no clothes. A third, only partly dressed, says, “Bread have I none, yet still I cling to reason.” With nothing to show for my reading, I too cling to reason. [Marcus Aurelius, M 4.40] 

18 - If Fortune gets the upper hand and makes you powerless to act, don’t immediately turn your back to the enemy, throw away your weapons, and run away looking for a place to hide, as if there were any place where Fortune could not find you. Instead, be more careful in applying yourself to your duties. Think about it deliberately and find some way by which you can serve. [Seneca, T 4] 

19 - As philosophers say, “only the educated are free.” Epictetus, D 2.1] 

20 - Give your heart to the trade you have learned. Draw energy from it. [Marcus Aurelius, M 4.31] 

21 - Have you lost your status as a citizen? Then exercise your status as a human being. [Seneca, T 4] 

22 - If you cannot demonstrate in practice what you learned, why learn it in the first place? [Epictetus, D 1.28.] 

23 - You are no one’s master and no one’s slave. [Marcus Aurelius, M 4.31] 

24 - Make sure that things are not closed to you because it is your own fault. .[Seneca, T 4] 

25 - But who your master is, I wonder. Money? Women? Boys? A tyrant? A friend of a tyrant? It must be one of them. Otherwise you wouldn’t tremble if one of these is in question. [Epictetus, D 2.1] 

26 - If you don’t want to be discouraged, don’t give more time than they deserve for insignificant things. [Marcus Aurelius, M 4.32] 

27 - The services of a good citizen are never useless. You do good by being heard and seen, by your expressions, by your gestures, by your determination, and the very way you walk. [Seneca, T 4] 

28 - You should be confident about things outside the area of your choice and be cautious towards those that are within. [Epictetus, D 2.1] 

29 - All things fade into legend and are, in a little while, forgotten. Even glorious lives end this way. [Marcus Aurelius, M 4.33] 

30 - You are never so cut off from everything, that you will find there is no room left for honorable action. .[Seneca, T 34 

31 - Be content to look like a nobody who knows nothing. [Epictetus, D 2.1] 

M=Meditations; D=Discourse; T=On Tranquility 

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