1. You are free if everything that happens to you happens according to your choice and not against it. [Epictetus D1.12]
2. Be ready to explore your mind, the mind of the universe, and your neighbour’s mind… Recognize it as similar to yours. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.22]
3. There is nothing to be gained by anger. [Seneca, A1.13]
4. Avoiding others is not possible. Nor do we have the power to change others. Then how do we deal with them? By understanding that people will act as they please, but we will act in accordance with nature. [Epictetus D1.12]
5. You help complete society as one of its units. So also, every one of your actions should help complete the social life. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.23]
6. The wise will do their duty in all things without the help of any evil passion. [Seneca, A1.13]
7. You gripe and protest. When you are alone you say you are lonely. When you are with people, you find fault with them. [Epictetus D1.12]
8. Any action not directed toward a social end (either directly or indirectly) disturbs your life and destroys its wholeness, like a person in a popular assembly, standing alone against the general agreement. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.23]
9. Anger must never become a habit with us. [Seneca, A1.14]
10. When you are alone call it peace and freedom; when you are in company, instead of calling it a crowd and being annoyed, call it a festival. Learn to enjoy it. [Epictetus D1.12]
11. [Such is everything:] Childish quarrels, childish games, ‘spirits carrying dead bodies’. What is represented in the mansion of the dead is clear to us now. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.24]
12. To be angry is of no more use than to grieve or to be afraid. [Seneca, A1.14]
13. What is the penalty for not accepting the things the way they are? To be just the way you are: miserable when alone and unhappy when with others. [Epictetus D1.12]
14. First, understand the quality of an object. Then detach it from its material part and study it. Think about how long it will last. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.25]
15. Pyrrhus, the exceptional trainer of gymnastic contestants, regularly used to ask his students not to lose their temper because anger upsets their skill and looks only for a way to harm. [Seneca, A1.14]
16. So, what if my leg is crippled? It’s just an insignificant leg. Do you want to blame the universe for it? [Epictetus D1.12]
17. You have had many problems, all because you didn’t let reason, your guide and master, do its natural work. Enough. No more. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.26]
18. Reason often urges patience where anger urges revenge and, where we could have been free of our first misfortune, we expose ourselves to worse ones. [Seneca, A1.14]
19. The greatness of reason is not measured by size but by the quality of its judgments. [Epictetus D1.12]
20. When someone hates or blames you, when someone says harmful things about you, look at their soul. See what manner of people they are. You will find that you don’t need to bother to impress them, yet you must be kind to them. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.27]
21. Some people have been exiled because they couldn’t bear to hear a single word of insult. They bring upon themselves the yoke of slavery because they are too proud to give up even a tiny bit of their liberty. [Seneca, A1.14]
22. You are given the faculty to cope with things. But you turn away from it at the very time you need it. [Epictetus D1.12]
23. The world’s cycle never changes. Up and down from age to age. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.28]
24. A pleasant disposition has its own faults. Even proven superior nature does not preclude vices. [Seneca, A1.15]
25. You are released from all accountability to your parents, brothers, property, life, and death. What are you accountable for then? Only for things under your power, and the proper use of impressions. [Epictetus D1.12]
26. Every event creates the one that follows… They are either isolated happenings or a single unified one. If it is an aimless chance, then you are also a part of it. [What is there to worry about?] [Marcus Aurelius, M9.28]
27. Humans have reason in place of impulse. [Seneca, A1.16]
28. Why are you then worried about things not under your power? You are simply creating problems for yourself. [Epictetus D1.12]
29. Soon the earth will cover us all. Then the earth itself will change. Things that result from the change will also change, and change they will forever. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.28]
30. One should neither be a robber nor a victim, neither given to pity nor cruelty. [Seneca, A1.13]
31. You forget the virtues of character you have in reserve, just when problems they can control present themselves, and you could use their help. [Epictetus, D1.12]

D: Discourses. M: Meditations. A: On Anger

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