1. Good and evil arise out of the choices we make; and all else is nothing to us. [Epictetus D1.25]
2. When will you be content with what you have now, happy knowing you have everything and everything comes from the gods? [Marcus Aurelius, M10.1]
3. The natural phenomena by which we suffer or profit are not aimed at us. [Seneca, A1.26]
4. Protect what is yours at all costs. Don’t crave for things that belong to another. Your good faith and sense of shame are your own. [Epictetus D1.25]
5. Pay attention to what your nature asks of you as if you are governed by it only. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.2]
6. Suppose we are being punished. Let’s not just think of what we suffer, but also of what we have done. [Seneca, A1.27]
7. Only when you go after what is not yours, you lose what is yours. Why do you need further instructions from me? [Epictetus D1.25]
8. Remember, nature has given you the ability to endure anything you think you can. Treat it so in your own self-interest. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.3]
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, A1.27]
10. If I place value on my body, I make a slave of myself; if I place a value on my property, again I make a slave of myself because I have shown how I may be taken. [Epictetus D1.25]
11. If someone is mistaken, gently show them where they went wrong. If you fail, blame yourself. Better still, blame no one. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.4]
12. Let’s reflect on our way of life. Provided we want to tell ourselves the truth, we’ll undoubtedly decide we got off lightly compared to what we deserved. [Seneca, A1.27]
13. It is generally true that we crush ourselves and create problems for ourselves. That is, our opinions do. [Epictetus D1.25]
14. Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time. You and the incident are woven in the spinning thread of cause and effect. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.5]
15. “I’m without fault. I’ve done nothing wrong”. In fact, you don’t admit to having done anything wrong. [Seneca, A1.28]
16. Stand by a stone and insult it, what response will you get? Likewise, if you listen like a stone, what would the abuser gain by his abuse? [Epictetus D1.25]
17. Whether the universe is a confusion of atoms or nature, let your first conviction be this: you are part of the whole controlled by nature. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.6]
18. We have done what was wrong. We have thought of what was wrong. We have hoped for what was wrong. And we have encouraged what was wrong. In some cases, we have remained innocent – only because we didn’t succeed. [Seneca, A1.28]
19. [The] law of life … we must do what nature demands. [Epictetus D1.26]
20. What benefits the whole cannot harm the parts. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.6]
21. Someone speaks ill of you. Think. Have you not spoken ill of them? Think of the many others you have spoken ill of. [Seneca, A1.28]
22. If we are troubled by our habits, let’s find a remedy for that. What aid can we find against habit? The contrary habit. [Epictetus D1.27]
23. I am related to the other parts whose nature is similar to mine, I will do nothing unsocial. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.6]
24. Some act with good intentions, some under compulsion, some in ignorance. Let us believe that even those who acted intentionally did not do so just to harm us, [Seneca, A1.28]
25. I cannot escape death. Can’t I escape the fear of it? Or do I have to die moaning and groaning too? [Epictetus D1.27]
26. Everything that is naturally combined to create the universe must necessarily decay. Rather, they must undergo a change of form. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.7]
27. How often have we appeared to have done something wrong although it is not so? How many people have we come to like after hating them at first? [Seneca, A1.28]
28. If someone agrees to what is false, we can be sure that he doesn’t do so willingly, but it appears so to that person. [Epictetus D1.28]
29. Once you consider yourself to be good, modest, truthful, rational, tranquil, and high-minded, don’t trade them for other qualities. Don’t let go of them. If you lose them, quickly return to them. [Marcus Aurelius M10.8]
30. We will be able to keep ourselves from becoming angry straightway if we silently say to ourselves when each offense is committed: “I have done this very thing myself ”. [Seneca A1.28]

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

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