1. First of all, you are a human being. Your highest quality is the power to choose. Everything else you have is subject to that. [Epictetus, D2.10]
2. “Why is this person doing this?” is the question you should ask yourself whenever someone – including yourself – does something. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.37]
3. It’s often better to pretend not to have noticed an injury than to avenge it. [Seneca, A1.33]
4. Your power to reason... separates you from wild animals and animals like sheep. [Epictetus, D2.10]
5. Remember, what pulls your strings is hidden deep within you. [Marcus Aurelius, M10.38]
6. When powerful people wrong us, not only must we bear it, but bear it cheerfully. They will do it again if they think they have succeeded in abusing us. [Seneca, A1.33]
7. The two faculties – power to choose and reason – make you a citizen of the world. [Epictetus, D2.10]
8. These are the properties of a rational soul: It sees itself, analyzes itself, and makes of itself whatever it chooses. [Marcus Aurelius, M11.1]
9. This is the worst feature of minds that have become arrogant by prosperity. They also hate the people they have injured. [Seneca, A1.33]
10. If you lost your skill in language or music, you would consider it a big loss. Yet you seem to think it is a trivial matter to lose your ability to be honest, gentle, and dignified. [Epictetus, D2.10]
11. If events such as dances or plays are cut short, they will be considered incomplete, but the soul reaches its completion no matter where it is stopped, and it can say, “I have completed my purpose”. [Marcus Aurelius, M11.1]
12. We should, therefore, keep anger at a distance… with one’s superior, it is foolish; and with one’s inferior, it is disgraceful. [Seneca, A1.34]
13. Not having positive traits, or losing them once having had them, is shameful, dishonourable, and worthy of rebuke. [Epictetus, D2.10]
14. Anyone who has lived forty years with any understanding at all has virtually seen – thanks to their similarities – both the past and the future. [Marcus Aurelius, M11.1]
15. It is the mark of a small-minded and miserable person to try to get back at someone who snaps at him. [Seneca, A1.34]
16. When our body or possessions are involved, we see harm. But when our choices are involved, we don’t see any harm at all. [Epictetus, D2.10]
17. This is also the property of the rational soul: love of one’s neighbours, truthfulness, and modesty, as well as not placing anything above itself. [Marcus Aurelius, M11.1]
18. All feeble creatures think that they are hurt if they are touched. [Seneca, A1.34]
19. No one becomes bad without suffering loss or damage. [Epictetus, D2.10]
20. The right reason does not differ at all from the principle of justice. [Marcus Aurelius, M11.1]
21. Think how many people may become our valuable friends when we forgive. [Seneca, A1.34]
22. When you come to study philosophy the right way, you begin by acknowledging your weakness with reference to important things in life. [Epictetus, D2.11]
23. Any time the call comes, the happy soul is ready to face separation from the body, death, dispersion, or survival. [Marcus Aurelius, M11.3]
24. How often has someone who refuses to forgive others, in turn, sought forgiveness for himself? [Seneca, A1.34]
25. You need to show me something more than your feeling that you are right. For a lunatic, what he does seems right. Would you say, then, that it is sufficient? [Epictetus D2.11]
26. Have you done something for the common good? Well then, that’s your reward. Keep this thought always in mind. Never stop doing good. [Marcus Aurelius, M11.4]
27. What can be more glorious than turning anger into friendship? [Seneca, A1.34]
28. We cannot establish something is correct just because it feels correct to us. [Epictetus, D2.11]
29. What’s your profession? To be good. But how are you to achieve it, unless you have a philosopher’s insight into the universe and into the nature of human beings? [Marcus Aurelius, M11.5]
30. If anyone is angry with you, meet their anger by returning benefits. [Seneca, A1.34)
31. The opinion each person holds is not sufficient criterion for determining the truth. [Epictetus, D2.11]

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

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