1 - If you have got rid of or reduced your tendency to impulsiveness, indecent language, recklessness, laziness, and if you are not motivated by the same things that motivated you once, at least not to the same extent, then every day becomes a festival [Epictetus D4.4]

2 - You don’t have time for reading, but you have time to curb your arrogance. You have time to rise above pleasures and pains. You have time to resist the lure of fame. You have time not to be annoyed with the foolish and ungrateful. And, yes, even to care for them. [Marcus Aurelius, M8.8]

3 - What is the use of anger, if we can achieve the same result through the use of reason? [Seneca, A1.11]

4 - … [E]veryday becomes a festival: today because you acted well yesterday, tomorrow because you acted well today. [Epictetus D4.4]

5 - Don’t let anyone – not even you – overhear you complaining about court life again. [Marcus Aurelius, M8.9]

6 - Do you think that a hunter is angry with the animals he kills? Yet he meets them when they attack him and follows them when they flee from him. All

7 - A good and excellent person does not quarrel with anyone. To the extent he can prevent it, he does not allow others to quarrel, either. [Epictetus D4.5]

8 - Now, what is good is always beneficial and must concern every human being, [Marcus Aurelius, M8.10]

9 - Anger sometimes overthrows and breaks to pieces whatever it meets. Yet more often it causes its own destruction. [Seneca, A1.11]

10 - But if you wish that your son or wife never commit a mistake, you are wishing for things not your own. [Epictetus D4.5]

11 - What is this thing in itself? What is its substance? What is its form, its matter? Why is it in this world? How long will it be around? [Marcus Aurelius, M8.10]

12 - Anger, therefore, is not useful even in wars or battles, because it tends to be reckless. While trying to bring others into danger, it opens itself to danger. [Seneca, A1.11]

13 - And getting an education means this: Learning what is your own and what is not your own.. [Epictetus D4.5]

14 - Going about doing the duties you owe society is following nature’s laws as well as your own. [Marcus Aurelius, M8.11]

15 - The good person will do the duty of a good human being without distraction or fear and in such a way that it is not unworthy of a human being. [Seneca, A1.12]

16 - What wall is so strong, what body is so steely, what property is safe against theft, and what reputation is so unassailable? All things everywhere are perishable and easily attacked and captured. Anyone who gets attached to any of them will necessarily be troubled, worry about the future, and be subjected to fear and sorrow. [Epictetus D4.5]

17 - To follow your own nature is the more appropriate, more suitable, and, indeed, the most agreeable thing to do. [Marcus Aurelius, M8.12]

18 - To believe “Good people are made angry by injuries done to their friends” (Theophrastus) is to discredit stronger principles, leaving the judgment to the mob rather than to a judge. [Seneca, A1.12]

19 - And don’t we remember that no one either harms or benefits another. Rather it is the judgment about these things that hurts and upsets a person. [Epictetus D4.5]

20 - If possible, make it a habit to examine the essential nature of every impression – how it affects the self, its ethics, and its logic. [Marcus Aurelius, M8.13]

21 - Anger is a sign of a weak mind, not of one driven by duty. [Seneca, A1.12]

22 - What kind of a person are you in your own eyes? What kind of a person are you in your thoughts, desires, and aversions? What kind of a person are you in your choices, preparations, and projects and all other human activities? Yet you are concerned with whether other people pity you?” [Epictetus D4.6]

23 - If this is what they believe … why should you be surprised or shocked by what they do? It is consistent with their beliefs. They have no choice. [Marcus Aurelius, M8.14]

24 - To get angry on behalf of one’s friends is not the sign of a loving mind, but a weak one. [Seneca, A1.12]

25 - My head is perfectly all right. What do I care if others think I have a headache? [Epictetus D4.6]

26 - No one is surprised when a fig tree produces figs. Similarly, we should be ashamed of our surprise when the world acts the way it does. [Marcus Aurelius, M8.15]

27 - It is admirable and worthy to defend one’s parents, children, friends, and countrymen, when duty calls – not impulsively or furiously – but willingly, with deliberate judgment and foresight. [Seneca, A1.12]

28 - What nonsense is this? How can I have right judgment when I am not satisfied with who I am but feel upset about how I look to others? [Epictetus D4.6] D:

Discourses. M: Meditations. A: On Anger

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