1. When people hold absurd opinions about things not in their control, taking them to be good and bad, they will of course grovel before powerful people. [Epictetus D1.19] 
2. Why don’t you use what is in your power to be a free human being? Why be a slave of things not in your power? [Marcus Aurelius, M9.40]
3. We need to suspend our anger. We can still inflict a postponed punishment but cannot recall an inflicted one. [Seneca, A1.22]
4. Our most important job is to test our impressions and accept only those that pass the test. [Epictetus D1.20]
5. Focus fully on doing what is in front of you and the resources you have to accomplish that. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.41]
6. The more uncommon moderation is among kings, the more it deserves to be praised. [Seneca, A1.23]
7. Whenever we believe it makes a difference, whether we get something right or wrong, we must play close attention and distinguish those things that might mislead us. [Epictetus D1.20]
8. When you are offended by someone’s shameless behaviour, ask yourself, “Can there be a world without shameless people?” [Marcus Aurelius, M9.42]
9. Credulity makes the most mischief. Most of the time, you shouldn’t even listen. In some matters, it’s better to be deceived than to mistrust. [Seneca, A1.24]
10. When it comes to our poor ruling faculty, we yawn and go back to sleep, accepting every impression that comes our way. It does not occur to us that this will affect us in any way. [Epictetus D1.20]
11. Nature has indeed given us many antidotes, such as gentleness to meet brutality and other antidotes for other ills. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.42]
12. You should totally get rid of suspicion and guesswork. They are the most unreliable goads to anger. [Seneca, A1.24]
13. Compare your attitude towards physical blindness with blind judgments. You will see that you are far from having the feelings that you should have in relation to good and evil. [Epictetus D1.20]
14. None of those who you are hurt by can damage your mind, which is the only harm. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.42]
15. Doubt will discover evidence to support it. What we need are directness and kindly judgment. Let’s believe nothing except what stares us in the face and is caught red-handed. [Seneca, A1.24]
16. When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval. [Epictetus D1.21]
17. So, what is surprising or wrong about boors behaving boorishly? Shouldn’t you rather blame yourself for not anticipating that they would behave this way? [Marcus Aurelius, M9.42]
18. We should not let petty and trivial things aggravate us. It is crazy to lose our temper because the servant is not quick, the water is lukewarm, the couch is disarranged, or our table carelessly set. [Seneca, A1.25]
19. Conflicts arise because of the way we apply our preconceived ideas differently to individual cases. The same person may be judged as brave by one but as reckless by another. This is how conflict arises. [Epictetus D1.22]
20. Whenever you think of someone as untrustworthy or ungrateful, turn your thoughts to yourself. It is clearly your mistake if you thought that such people would behave in any other way. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.42]
21. Why should we be driven to frenzy by anyone’s coughing and sneezing, or by a fly being chased without care, or by a dog’s hanging about us, or a key dropping from a careless servant’s hand? [Seneca, A1.25]
22. To be properly educated means learning to apply our natural preconceptions to events, according to nature – distinguishing what is in our power and what is not in our power. [Epictetus D1.22]
23. Once you have done someone a service, what more do you want? Aren’t you happy enough that you followed the laws of nature? Are you also expecting to be paid for it? That’s like the eye expecting a reward for seeing, or the feet for walking. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.42]
24. If you are angry with the waiter for icing your drink badly, will you be able to endure hunger and the thirst of a summer campaign? [Seneca, A1.25]
25. [We] must not respect or approve anything that does not share in the nature of what is good. [Epictetus D1.23]
26. A human being is born to be kind. When you have done something kind or something else for the common good, you have done what you are made for. You get what is your own. [Marcus Aurelius, M9.42]
27. Nothing feeds anger more than an excessive and dissatisfied luxury. We should toughen the mind by treating it rigorously, so it doesn’t feel any blow that is not severe [Seneca, A1.25]
28. It is difficulties that show what a person is made of. [Epictetus D1.24]
29. My soul, will you ever be good, simple, whole, all open, as plain to see as the body that surrounds you? Will you never enjoy the sweetness of a loving and affectionate heart? [Marcus Aurelius M10.1]
30. We cannot call anything a wrong unless it is done intentionally. [Seneca A1.26]
31. Death is no evil, because it is not dishonourable. Reputation is the empty noise of fools. [Epictetus 1.24]

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

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