Does anyone know the source of Plato's alleged quote "[T]here are two things a person should never be angry at; what they can help, and what they cannot."?

by MisterJasonC
Iphidamas

The attribution to Plato was invented in the 2000s, but the proverb itself is older. It seems to be originally a Scottish folk proverb. Its first appearance is in James Kelly's 1721 Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs Explained and Made Intelligible to the English Reader, p. 322: there it's given in the form

Two things a man ſhould never be angry at; what he can help, and what he cannot help.

If he can help it, let him; if he cannot, Anger is to no purpoſe.

It also gets used in an 1830 novel written by - oh, you'll love this - John Galt. Not Ayn Rand's fantasy fulfilment character, though, but a Scottish novelist. The novel's called Lawrie Todd.