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Discourses

By Epictetus.

Translated by George Long.

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

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