1 -  We are given the faculty of understanding. To achieve our proper purpose in life, we need to act appropriately and methodically, in line with our nature. [Epictetus D1.6]

2 -  When you look at how tiresome it is to live in the company of people with conflicting principles, it is enough to make you cry to death. “Come quickly, before I too forget who I am.” [Marcus Aurelius, M9.3]

3 -  We are in a prolonged struggle against constant and prolific evils. Not to eradicate them, but merely to make sure they don’t overwhelm us. [Seneca, A1.10]

4 -  It is shameful for a human being to begin and end where irrational animals do. We should begin where they do, but only end in contemplation and understanding, and adopt a way of life in harmony with nature. [Epictetus D1.6]

5 -  When you cause harm, you harm yourself. When are unjust, you are unjust to yourself because you make yourself bad. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.4]

6 -  I would not want fear, which is a weapon of a wild animal, to be a weapon for the wise as well. [Seneca, A1.11]

7 -  I am ready to show you that you have resources, strength of character, and resilience. I challenge you to show me what grounds you have to complain and be reproachful. [Epictetus D1.46

8 -  You can also be unjust by not acting.. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.5]

9 -  Anger is hideous, and we should not be afraid of it. [Seneca, A1.11]

10 -  Establish what is true, eliminate what is false, and suspend judgment in doubtful cases. [Epictetus D1.7]

11 -  It is enough if your opinion is based on understanding, your action on unselfishness, and your attitude on acceptance. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.6]

12 -  Nature has proclaimed that whatever becomes great by creating fear in others is not free from fear itself. [Seneca, A1.11]

13 -  If you ask me what makes a person good, I can only say it is found in the quality of choices he makes. [Epictetus D1.78

14 -  Erase your imagination. Check your impulse. Reduce your appetites. Let reason rule supreme. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.7]

15 -  There is no reason, then, for any wise person to wish to be feared. [Seneca, A1.11]

16 -  Are you, a philosopher and citizen of the universe, going to be dependent on others when you travel? [Epictetus D1.8]

17 -  All of us who see and breathe see the same light and breathe the same air. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.8]

18 -  We fear anger just as children fear the dark, or wild animals fear red feathers. It has nothing stable or robust, but it affects feeble minds. [Seneca, A1.11]

19 -  Your stay here is brief, and it is easy enough to endure for people with your level of understanding. Rigidity can come about in two ways: Either one's intellect is frozen, or one's sense of honour is. [Epictetus D1.8]

20 -  It is easier to see a fragment of earth away from earth than to see a human being with no connection to fellow human beings [Marcus Aurelius, M9.9]

21 -  You must erase anger from your mind before letting virtues in because virtues and vices cannot coexist. [Seneca, A1.11]

22 -  Why cry and complain? Why flatter or envy others? Why admire those with possessions, especially when they are powerful and quick to anger? [Epictetus D1.8]

23 -  Nature is indifferent to some things. If it had a preference between two things, it wouldn’t have created both. If we want to follow nature, we should have her mindset and share her indifference. To prefer life or death, pleasure or pain, fame or disrepute is a sin. Nature does not prefer one over the other. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.1]

24 -  There is nothing so hard and challenging that our mind cannot overcome it with regular practice. [Seneca, A1.11]

25 -  We flatter those we think can help us and fear those we think can hurt us. [Epictetus D1.8]

26 -  Reason too bears fruit, both for itself and for the world. From it comes the harvest of other good things, all in turn bearing the stamp of reason. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.10]

27 -  There are no passions so fierce and independent that they cannot be brought under control by discipline. [Seneca, A1.11]

28 -  It is silly and superfluous to get from another person what you can get for yourself. [Epictetus D1.8]

29 -  Teach them better if you can. If not, remember, kindliness has been given to you for times like these. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.11]

30 -  There are a thousand other instances of persistence overcoming all obstacles. They prove that nothing is complicated when the mind has set itself to endure. Seneca, A1.11]

31 -  Why should I look to get an estate, money, or some position from anyone else? No, I will not be so insensitive to what I already have. [Epictetus, D1.8]

M: Meditations; D: Discorses A: On Anger

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