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Epictetus, translated by George Long

Philosophyabout 17 hours of listening

Epictetus instructs his students how to live the life of a Stoic.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Introduction
  3. Preface
  4. I: Of the Things Which Are in Our Power, and Not in Our Power
  5. II: How a Man on Every Occasion Can Maintain His Proper Character
  6. III: How a Man Should Proceed from the Principle of God Being the Father of All Men to the Rest
  7. IV: Of Progress or Improvement
  8. V: Against the Academics
  9. VI: Of Providence
  10. VII: Of the Use of Sophistical Arguments and Hypothetical and the Like
  11. VIII: That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed
  12. IX: How from the Fact That We Are Akin to God a Man May Proceed to the Consequences
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  1. X: Against Those Who Eagerly Seek Preferment at Rome
  2. XI: Of Natural Affection
  3. XII: Of Contentment
  4. XIII: How Everything May Be Done Acceptably to the Gods
  5. XIV: That the Deity Oversees All Things
  6. XV: What Philosophy Promises
  7. XVI: Of Providence
  8. XVII: That the Logical Art Is Necessary
  9. XVIII: That We Ought Not to Be Angry with the Errors (Faults) of Others
  10. XIX: How We Should Behave to Tyrants
  11. XX: About Reason, How It Contemplates Itself
  12. XXI: Against Those Who Wish to Be Admired
  13. XXII: On Precognitions
  14. XXIII: Against Epicurus
  15. XXIV: How We Should Struggle with Circumstances
  16. XXV: On the Same
  17. XXVI: What Is the Law of Life
  18. XXVII: In How Many Ways Appearances Exist, and What Aids We Should Provide Against Them
  19. XXVIII: That We Ought Not to Be Angry with Men; and What Are the Small and the Great Things Among Men
  20. XXIX: On Constancy (Or Firmness)
  21. XXX: What We Ought to Have Ready in Difficult Circumstances
  22. I: That Confidence (Courage) Is Not Inconsistent with Caution
  23. II: Of Tranquillity (Freedom from Perturbation)
  24. III: To Those Who Recommend Persons to Philosophers
  25. IV: Against a Person Who Had Once Been Detected in Adultery
  26. V: How Magnanimity Is Consistent with Care
  27. VI: Of Indifference
  28. VII: How We Ought to Use Divination
  29. VIII: What Is the Nature (Ἡ Οὐσία) of the Good
  30. IX: That When We Cannot Fulfil That Which the Character of a Man Promises, We Assume the Character of a Philosopher
  31. X: How We May Discover the Duties of Life from Names
  32. XI: What the Beginning of Philosophy Is
  33. XII: Of Disputation or Discussion
  34. XIII: On Anxiety (Solicitude)
  35. XIV: To Naso
  36. XV: To or Against Those Who Obstinately Persist in What They Have Determined
  37. XVI: That We Do Not Strive to Use Our Opinions About Good and Evil
  38. XVII: How We Must Adapt Preconceptions to Particular Cases
  39. XVIII: How We Should Struggle Against Appearances
  40. XIX: Against Those Who Embrace Philosophical Opinions Only in Words
  41. XX: Against the Epicureans and Academics
  42. XXI: Of Inconsistency
  43. XXII: On Friendship
  44. XXIII: On the Power of Speaking
  45. XXIV: To (Or Against) a Person Who Was One of Those Who Were Not Valued (Esteemed) by Him
  46. XXV: That Logic Is Necessary
  47. XXVI: What Is the Property of Error
  48. I: Of Finery in Dress
  49. II: In What a Man Ought to Be Exercised Who Has Made Proficiency; and That We Neglect the Chief Things
  50. III: What Is the Matter on Which a Good Man Should Be Employed, and in What We Ought Chiefly to Practice Ourselves
  51. IV: Against a Person Who Showed His Partisanship in an Unseemly Way in a Theatre
  52. V: Against Those Who on Account of Sickness Go Away Home
  53. VI: Miscellaneous
  54. VII: To the Administrator of the Free Cities Who Was an Epicurean
  55. VIII: How We Must Exercise Ourselves Against Appearances (Φαντασίας)
  56. IX: To a Certain Rhetorician Who Was Going Up to Rome on a Suit
  57. X: In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness
  58. XI: Certain Miscellaneous Matters
  59. XII: About Exercise
  60. XIII: What Solitude Is, and What Kind of Person a Solitary Man Is
  61. XIV: Certain Miscellaneous Matters
  62. XV: That We Ought to Proceed with Circumspection to Everything
  63. XVI: That We Ought with Caution to Enter Into Familiar Intercourse with Men
  64. XVII: On Providence
  65. XVIII: That We Ought Not to Be Disturbed by Any News
  66. XIX: What Is the Condition of a Common Kind of Man and of a Philosopher
  67. XX: That We Can Derive Advantage from All External Things
  68. XXI: Against Those Who Readily Come to the Profession of Sophists
  69. XXII: About Cynism
  70. XXIII: To Those Who Read and Discuss for the Sake of Ostentation
  71. XXIV: That We Ought Not to Be Moved by a Desire of Those Things Which Are Not in Our Power
  72. XXV: To Those Who Fall Off (Desist) from Their Purpose
  73. XXVI: To Those Who Fear Want
  74. I: About Freedom
  75. II: On Familiar Intimacy
  76. III: What Things We Should Exchange for Other Things
  77. IV: To Those Who Are Desirous of Passing Life in Tranquillity
  78. V: Against the Quarrelsome and Ferocious
  79. VI: Against Those Who Lament Over Being Pitied
  80. VII: On Freedom from Fear
  81. VIII: Against Those Who Hastily Rush Into the Use of the Philosophic Dress
  82. IX: To a Person Who Had Been Changed to a Character of Shamelessness
  83. X: What Things We Ought to Despise, and What Things We Ought to Value
  84. XI: About Purity (Cleanliness)
  85. XII: On Attention
  86. XIII: Against or to Those Who Readily Tell Their Own Affairs
  87. Endnotes 1–500
  88. Endnotes 501–795
  89. Colophon
  90. Uncopyright

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