Anger advice from Euripides: It does no good to rage at circumstance; Events will take their course with no regard For us. But he who makes the best of those Events he lights upon will not fare ill.

"The work of philosophy is to take responsibility for our own thinking, and in so doing to liberate ourselves from the attachments and misjudgments that otherwise dictate our experience." - Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic

"Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them." - Seneca, Letters 123.6

Stoic reminder from Stobaeus: The Stoics saw the bad person as ungrateful, not having an affinity either with returning or with offering gratitude, since they do nothing for the common good or for friendship or without calculation.

"You are not your body and hair-style, but your capacity for choosing well. If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be." - Epictetus, Discourses 3.1.39b–40a

"The Stoics recommend that we think ahead about adversity. Anticipating it can take away its terrors and reduce its force when it arrives." - Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic

Stoic reminder from Pierre Hadot: [Stoics] privilege the present, to the detriment of the past and above all of the future. They posit as an axiom that happiness can only be found in the present, that one instant of happiness is equivalent to an eternity of happiness.

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca, Letters 71.3

"I will keep constant watch over myself and — most usefully — will put each day up for review." - Seneca, Letters 83.2

"Sometimes the most skilful way to decline an unwanted request is to simply say no without elaboration or excuse." —Scott Waltman, The Stoicism Workbook

“Instead of wishing that things would happen as you’d like, wish that they would happen as they do, and then you’ll be content.” - Epictetus, Enchiridion 8

"You don’t have to form an opinion about this and trouble your mind. Things themselves have no inherent power to form our opinions." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.52

Stoic reminder from Marcus Aurelius: Return at frequent intervals to philosophy and lean on it for rest. With its help, even court business seems tolerable to you, and you become tolerable while attending to it.

"The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth." - Seneca, Letters 62.3

"People who achieve luxurious lifestyles are rarely satisfied: Experiencing luxury only whets their appetite for even more luxury." - William B Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life

Stoic reminder from Montaigne: If the original essence of the thing which we fear could confidently lodge itself within us by its own authority it would be the same in all men.

When a friend breaks a glass, we are quick to say, ‘Oh, bad luck.’ It’s only reasonable, then, that when a glass of your own breaks, you accept it in the same patient spirit. - Epictetus, Enchiridion 26

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do" - Epictetus, Discourses, 3.23.2

According to Seneca, each person should plan for the arrival of anger according to what they know will be effective for them. Not everyone will benefit from the same remedies.

"He needs but little who desires but little. He has his wish, whose wish can be To have what is enough." - Seneca, Letters 108.11