Discourses

Discourses

By Epictetus.

Translated by George Long.

Table of Contents

1. Titlepage
2. Imprint
3. Introduction
4. Preface
5. Discourses
   1. Book I
      1. I: Of the Things Which Are in Our Power, and Not in Our Power
      2. II: How a Man on Every Occasion Can Maintain His Proper Character
      3. III: How a Man Should Proceed from the Principle of God Being the Father of All Men to the Rest
      4. IV: Of Progress or Improvement
      5. V: Against the Academics
      6. VI: Of Providence
      7. VII: Of the Use of Sophistical Arguments and Hypothetical and the Like
      8. VIII: That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed
      9. IX: How from the Fact That We Are Akin to God a Man May Proceed to the Consequences
      10. X: Against Those Who Eagerly Seek Preferment at Rome
      11. XI: Of Natural Affection
      12. XII: Of Contentment
      13. XIII: How Everything May Be Done Acceptably to the Gods
      14. XIV: That the Deity Oversees All Things
      15. XV: What Philosophy Promises
      16. XVI: Of Providence
      17. XVII: That the Logical Art Is Necessary
      18. XVIII: That We Ought Not to Be Angry with the Errors (Faults) of Others
      19. XIX: How We Should Behave to Tyrants
      20. XX: About Reason, How It Contemplates Itself
      21. XXI: Against Those Who Wish to Be Admired
      22. XXII: On Precognitions
      23. XXIII: Against Epicurus
      24. XXIV: How We Should Struggle with Circumstances
      25. XXV: On the Same
      26. XXVI: What Is the Law of Life
      27. XXVII: In How Many Ways Appearances Exist, and What Aids We Should Provide Against Them
      28. XXVIII: That We Ought Not to Be Angry with Men; and What Are the Small and the Great Things Among Men
      29. XXIX: On Constancy (Or Firmness)
      30. XXX: What We Ought to Have Ready in Difficult Circumstances
   2. Book II
      1. I: That Confidence (Courage) Is Not Inconsistent with Caution
      2. II: Of Tranquillity (Freedom from Perturbation)
      3. III: To Those Who Recommend Persons to Philosophers
      4. IV: Against a Person Who Had Once Been Detected in Adultery
      5. V: How Magnanimity Is Consistent with Care
      6. VI: Of Indifference
      7. VII: How We Ought to Use Divination
      8. VIII: What Is the Nature (Ἡ Οὐσία) of the Good
      9. IX: That When We Cannot Fulfil That Which the Character of a Man Promises, We Assume the Character of a Philosopher
      10. X: How We May Discover the Duties of Life from Names
      11. XI: What the Beginning of Philosophy Is
      12. XII: Of Disputation or Discussion
      13. XIII: On Anxiety (Solicitude)
      14. XIV: To Naso
      15. XV: To or Against Those Who Obstinately Persist in What They Have Determined
      16. XVI: That We Do Not Strive to Use Our Opinions About Good and Evil
      17. XVII: How We Must Adapt Preconceptions to Particular Cases
      18. XVIII: How We Should Struggle Against Appearances
      19. XIX: Against Those Who Embrace Philosophical Opinions Only in Words
      20. XX: Against the Epicureans and Academics
      21. XXI: Of Inconsistency
      22. XXII: On Friendship
      23. XXIII: On the Power of Speaking
      24. XXIV: To (Or Against) a Person Who Was One of Those Who Were Not Valued (Esteemed) by Him
      25. XXV: That Logic Is Necessary
      26. XXVI: What Is the Property of Error
   3. Book III
      1. I: Of Finery in Dress
      2. II: In What a Man Ought to Be Exercised Who Has Made Proficiency; and That We Neglect the Chief Things
      3. III: What Is the Matter on Which a Good Man Should Be Employed, and in What We Ought Chiefly to Practice Ourselves
      4. IV: Against a Person Who Showed His Partisanship in an Unseemly Way in a Theatre
      5. V: Against Those Who on Account of Sickness Go Away Home
      6. VI: Miscellaneous
      7. VII: To the Administrator of the Free Cities Who Was an Epicurean
      8. VIII: How We Must Exercise Ourselves Against Appearances (Φαντασίας)
      9. IX: To a Certain Rhetorician Who Was Going Up to Rome on a Suit
      10. X: In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness
      11. XI: Certain Miscellaneous Matters
      12. XII: About Exercise
      13. XIII: What Solitude Is, and What Kind of Person a Solitary Man Is
      14. XIV: Certain Miscellaneous Matters
      15. XV: That We Ought to Proceed with Circumspection to Everything
      16. XVI: That We Ought with Caution to Enter Into Familiar Intercourse with Men
      17. XVII: On Providence
      18. XVIII: That We Ought Not to Be Disturbed by Any News
      19. XIX: What Is the Condition of a Common Kind of Man and of a Philosopher
      20. XX: That We Can Derive Advantage from All External Things
      21. XXI: Against Those Who Readily Come to the Profession of Sophists
      22. XXII: About Cynism
      23. XXIII: To Those Who Read and Discuss for the Sake of Ostentation
      24. XXIV: That We Ought Not to Be Moved by a Desire of Those Things Which Are Not in Our Power
      25. XXV: To Those Who Fall Off (Desist) from Their Purpose
      26. XXVI: To Those Who Fear Want
   4. Book IV
      1. I: About Freedom
      2. II: On Familiar Intimacy
      3. III: What Things We Should Exchange for Other Things
      4. IV: To Those Who Are Desirous of Passing Life in Tranquillity
      5. V: Against the Quarrelsome and Ferocious
      6. VI: Against Those Who Lament Over Being Pitied
      7. VII: On Freedom from Fear
      8. VIII: Against Those Who Hastily Rush Into the Use of the Philosophic Dress
      9. IX: To a Person Who Had Been Changed to a Character of Shamelessness
      10. X: What Things We Ought to Despise, and What Things We Ought to Value
      11. XI: About Purity (Cleanliness)
      12. XII: On Attention
      13. XIII: Against or to Those Who Readily Tell Their Own Affairs
6. Endnotes
7. Colophon
8. Uncopyright

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