The Discourses of Epictetus

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Introduction and Preface

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Chapters (96)

1. 1Introduction and Preface14:49
2. 2Book I I. Of the Things Which Are in Our Power, and Not in Our Power8:50
3. 3II. How a Man on Every Occasion Can Maintain His Proper Character9:20
4. 4III. How a Man Should Proceed from the Principles of God Being the Father of All Men to the Rest2:47
5. 5IV. Of Progress or Improvement9:10
6. 6V. Against the Academics3:01
7. 7VI. Of Providence11:00
8. 8VII. Of the Use of Sophistical Arguments and Hypothetical and the Like9:07
9. 9VIII. That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed4:19
10. 10IX. How from the Fact That We Are Akin to God a Man May Proceed to the Consequences9:59
11. 11X. Against Those Who Eagerly Seek Preferment at Rome4:09
12. 12XI. Of Natural Affection10:58
13. 13XII. Of Contentment9:26
14. 14XIII. How Everything May Be Done Acceptably to the Gods2:09
15. 15XIV. That the Deity Oversees All Things5:15
16. 16XV. What Philosophy Promises2:38
17. 17XVI. Of Providence5:17
18. 18XVII. That the Logical Art is Necessary7:30
19. 19XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with the Errors (Faults) of Others7:19
20. 20XIX. How We Should Behave to Tyrants7:54
21. 21XX. About Reason, How I Contemplates Itself5:06
22. 22XXI. Against Those Who Wish to Be Admired1:20
23. 23XXII. On Precognition5:52
24. 24XXIII. Against Epicurus2:30
25. 25XXIV. How We Should Struggle with Circumstances5:13
26. 26XXV. On the Same8:13
27. 27XXVI. What is the Law of Life5:24
28. 28XXVII. In How Many Ways Appearances Exist, and What Aids We Should Provide Against Them6:13
29. 29XXVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with Men; and What are the Small and the Great Things Among Men9:27
30. 30XXIX. On Constancy (Or Firmness)18:06
31. 31XXX. What We Ought to Have Ready in Difficult Circumstances2:23
32. 32Book II I. That Confidence (Courage) is Not Inconsistent with Caution12:15
33. 33II. Of Tranquility (Freedom from Perturbation)6:09
34. 34III. To Those Who Recommend Persons to Philosophers2:08
35. 35IV. Against a Person Who Had Once Been Detected in Adultery3:54
36. 36V. How Magnanimity Is Consistent with Care8:45
37. 37VI. Of Indifference6:51
38. 38VII. How We Ought to Use Divination4:10
39. 39VIII. What Is the Nature ('H Ουσία) Of the Good9:06
40. 40IX. That When We Cannot Fulfil That Which the Character of a Man Promises, We Assume the Character of a Philosopher7:08
41. 41X. How We May Discover the Duties of Life from Names8:40
42. 42XI. What the Beginning of Philosophy Is7:11
43. 43XII. Of Disputation or Discussion6:51
44. 44XIII. On Anxiety (Solicitude)8:22
45. 45XIV. To Naso8:41
46. 46XV. To or Against Those Who Obstinately Persist in What They Have Determined5:57
47. 47XVI. That We Do Not Strive to Use Our Opinions About Good and Evil14:57
48. 48XVII. How We Must Adapt Preconceptions to Particular Cases12:04
49. 49XVIII. How We Should Struggle Against Appearances8:15
50. 50XIX. Against Those Who Embrace Philosophical Opinions Only in Words11:10
51. 51XX. Against the Epicureans and the Academics12:31
52. 52XXI. Of Inconsistency7:14
53. 53XXII. On Friendship12:43
54. 54XXIII. On the Power of Speaking14:44
55. 55XXIV. To (Or Against) a Person Who Was One of Those Who Were Not Valued (Esteemed by Him)9:28
56. 56XXV. That Logic is Necessary1:05
57. 57XXVI. What Is the Property of Error2:51
58. 58Book III I. Of Finery in Dress13:59
59. 59II. In What a Man Ought to Be Exercised Who Has Made Proficiency and That We Neglect the Chief Things6:31
60. 60III. What Is the Matter on Which a Good Man Should be Employed, and in What We Ought Chiefly to Practice Ourselves7:14
61. 61IV. Against a Person Who Showed His Partisanship in an Unseemly Way in a Theatre4:07
62. 62V. Against Those Who on Account of Sickness Go Away Home5:30
63. 63VI. Miscellaneous3:27
64. 64VII. To the Administrator of the Free Cities Who Was an Epicurean10:33
65. 65VIII. How We Must Exercise Ourselves Against Appearances (Φαντασίασ)2:59
66. 66IX. To A Certain Rhetorician Who Was Going Up to Rome on a Suit7:28
67. 67X. In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness6:42
68. 68XI. Certain Misceallaneous Matters1:39
69. 69XII. About Exercise6:15
70. 70XIII. What Solitude Is, and What Kind of Person a Solitary Man Is8:03
71. 71XIV. Certain Miscellaneous Matters3:21
72. 72XV. That We Ought to Proceed with Circumspection to Everything5:08
73. 73XVI. That We Ought with Caution to Enter into Familiar Intercourse with Men4:34
74. 74XVII. On Providence2:36
75. 75XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Disturbed by Any News2:46
76. 76XIX. What is the Condition of a Common Kind of Man and of a Philosopher2:12
77. 77XX. That We Can Derive Advantage from All External Things5:38
78. 78XXI. Against Those Who Readily Come to the Profession of Sophists7:22
79. 79XXII. About Cynism32:54
80. 80XXIII. To Those Who Read and Discuss for the Sake of Ostentation13:07
81. 81XXIV. That We Ought Not to Be Moved by a Desire of Those Things Which Are Not in Our Power38:46
82. 82XXV. To Those Who Fall Off (Desist) from Their Purpose3:44
83. 83XXVI. To Those Who Fear Want13:16
84. 84Book IV I. About Freedom58:32
85. 85II. On Familiar Intimacy3:37
86. 86III. What Things We Should Exchange for Other Things4:03
87. 87IV. To Those Who Are Desirous of Passing Life in Tranquility18:07
88. 88V. Against the Quarrelsome and Ferocious13:16
89. 89VI. Against Those Who Lament Over Being Pitied14:02
90. 90VII. On Freedom From Fear15:16
91. 91VIII. Against Those Who Hastily Rush Into the Use of the Philosophic Dress14:54
92. 92IX. To a Person Who Had Been Changed to a Character of Shamelessness6:21
93. 93X. What Things We Ought to Despise, and What Things We Ought to Value12:29
94. 94XI. About Purity (Cleanliness)13:06
95. 95XII. On Attention7:18
96. 96XIII. Against or to Those Who Readily Tell Their Own Affairs8:22