1. When a guide meets up with someone who is lost, ordinarily his reaction is to direct him on the right path, not mock or malign him. [Epictetus, D2.12]
2. 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]
3. Fights cease when there is only one party because it takes two to fight. [Seneca, A1.34]
4. Unless you want something that is not under your control, how can you be anxious? [Epictetus, D2.13]
5. 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]
6. Someone hit you. Do you hit back? If you do, you allow the other person to hit you again. You will not be able to withdraw yourself from the fight when you want. [Seneca, A1.334]
7. Where you have knowledge, there you have confidence and you are not concerned about what others may think. [Epictetus, D2.13]
8. Tragedies were first brought on the stage to remind us how things like this can happen naturally... We are shown in these plays that consequences inevitably follow actions. [Marcus Aurelius, M11.6]
9. Would you strike an enemy so that you hurt your own hand and lose your balance? Yet, anger is such a weapon. [Seneca, A1.35]
10. What are we anxious about? Our body, our possessions, and what powerful people may do to us. Never about anything under our control. [Epictetus, D2.13]
11. We must not chafe and fret at that which happens. [Marcus Aurelius, M11.6]
12. The healthiest and soundest movements of the mind are those that are under our control and not those out of our control. [Seneca, A1.35]
13. Good people do not grieve, complain, or groan. [Epictetus, D2.13]
14. No other condition in life is as well suited for the practice of philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now. How plain this is to see! [Marcus Aurelius, M11.6] 
15. The angry have no grace left in them. [Seneca, A1.35]
16. It is not enough to wish to become wise and good, we need to learn certain things. We must find out what they are. [Epictetus, D2.14]
17. A branch cut off from a connecting branch is also cut off from the whole tree. Similarly, human beings cut off from their fellow human beings are cut off from the whole community. [Marcus Aurelius, M11.8]
18. Sextius says that some angry people have benefited by looking in a mirror. They have been taken aback by such a significant change in the way they look. It is as if they were brought into their own presence and could not recognize themselves. [Seneca, A1.36]
19. “We must stick with a decision.” “That applies only to a sound decision, not to any decision.” [Epictetus, D2.15]
20. Others may stand in your way when you follow the path of reason, but they won’t be able to stop you from taking sound action. [Marcus Aurelius, M11.9]
21. No road leads to madness more quickly [than anger]. [Seneca, A1.36]
22. Examine your decisions to see if they are correct. If they are, then and only then, do you have the basis for a firm resolve. [Epictetus, D2.15]
23. We can never achieve true justice if we go after middle [indifferent] things, or are easily deceived or are careless and changeable. [Marcus Aurelius, M11.10]
24. Other passions gain a footing in our minds little by little but anger acts suddenly and all at once. [Seneca, A1.36]
25. Why should it come as a surprise to you that, in fields you practice, you excel yourself? Or, that you get nowhere in fields you don’t? [Epictetus D2.16]
26. It may be that the things you pursue and avoid don’t come to you; rather, you go to them. Don’t judge them and they will be quiet. Then you will neither pursue nor avoid them. [Marcus Aurelius, M11.11]
27. Other passions gain a footing in the mind little by little but anger acts suddenly and all at once. It makes all other passions obey it. It overcomes the warmest love. [Seneca, A1.36]
28. What do we value? Externals. What are we serious about? Externals. Naturally, we are going to experience fear and anxiety. [Epictetus, D2.16]
29. The soul maintains its figure as a sphere by not grasping at things beyond it or retreating inward. Not extended, not shrunk. She reveals herself to the world as radiant. [Marcus Aurelius, M11.12]
30. Greed may be the toughest and unbending of passions. Yet it is trampled underfoot by anger. [Seneca, A1.36] D:

Discourses. M: Meditations. A: On Anger

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