1. Always remember what belongs to you and what belongs to others and you won’t be disturbed. [Epictetus, D2.22]
2. Then why struggle and strain? Why not be content to live your short life in the right way? [Marcus Aurelius, M10.31]
3. What is new about your enemy hurting you, your friend quarreling with you, your son going wrong, or your servant doing something offensive? [Seneca, A1.31]
4. If I knew that my present destiny is to fall ill, I would wish for it. [Epictetus, D2.22]
5. Think of the opportunities – the raw materials for the good – you are rejecting. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.31]
6. The most shameful excuse a general could make is, “I did not think”. I believe it is the most shameful excuse that anyone can make. [Seneca, A1.31]
7. We don’t know what it means to be a human being, unlike a horse trainer who knows what belongs to horses. [Epictetus, D2.22]
8. Keep at it, until you make these things your own – just like a blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything you throw at it. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.31]
9. When you are forming a judgment about someone’s morals, think about the character of human beings in general. [Seneca, A1.31]
10. When necessity calls, none of us is ready and willing to obey it. When we do suffer, we don’t do so willingly. We cry in protest, and lament “the circumstances”. [Epictetus, D2.5]
11. Let no one have the right to say truthfully that you are without integrity or goodness. Should anyone think so, see that they have no basis. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.32]
12. When you are particularly happy, be particularly careful. When everything seems peaceful to you, be sure that trouble hasn’t gone away. [Seneca, A1.31]
13. Just remember the rule that distinguishes what is yours from what is not. Don’t ever lay claim to things that do not belong to you. [Epictetus, D2.5]
14. All depends on you. Who else can stop you from attaining goodness and integrity? [Marcus Aurelius, M10.32]
15. The power to harm is detestable and unnatural to a human being . [Seneca, A1.31]
16. Why then do we consult fortune-tellers so often? Cowardice. Our fear of what may happen. [Epictetus, D2.7]
17. What is the very best we can say or do with the material we are made of? Whatever it is, it is in your power to say or do it. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.33]
18. Human beings should spare one another because they are born to form a society [Seneca, A1.31]
19. You are a principal work of God, a fragment of Him. Why are you then ignorant of your noble birth? [Epictetus, D2.8]
20. You will never stop complaining until your mind feels the same pleasure from doing what is proper for human beings to do that a hedonist gets from self-indulgence. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.33]
21. If we can, we should not hurt another human being. [Seneca, A1.31]
22. The god you carry around with you is a living one and yet you are so blind to the fact that you defile Him with your impure thoughts and offensive behaviour. [Epictetus, D2.8]
23. You should consider that everything you do in accordance with nature is a pleasure, and you can do this anywhere. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.33]
24. We should look to the future, not to the past. Punishments are acts of caution, not of anger. [Seneca, A1.31]
25. If you had any intelligence, you would try to avoid doing anything unworthy of your creator or of you, such as making yourself a spectacle in front of others. [Epictetus D2.8]
26. Keep before your eyes the ease with which reason carries through all things – as a fire upwards, as a stone downwards, as a cylinder down a slope. Be content. Ask no more. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.33]
27. Maybe it is a good person who has wronged you. Don’t believe it. Maybe it is a bad person. Don’t be surprised. [Seneca, A1.30]
28. “Do you mean to say that you are immune from illness, death, age, and disease?” “No, but I would die and bear disease godlike. This much is in my power. This I can do.” [Epictetus, D2.8]
29. Obstacles can either affect the body only, which is a dead thing, or have no power to crush or injure us unless we help them with our preconceptions and surrender our reason. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.31]
30. What is there to wonder if bad people commit harmful acts? [Seneca, A1.31]
31. A desire that is always fulfilled. An aversion that does not face what it wants to avoid. The right choice. A well-considered assent. This is what you shall see. [Epictetus, D2.8] D:

Discourses. M: Meditations. A: On Anger

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