Discourses of Epictetus

by Epictetus

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)Ancient

96 chapters13h 57mEnglish1877

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Philosophical discourses of Epictetus as recorded by his affectionate student, Arrian. One main precept expounded is that we do not fear events but rather our thoughts about those events. (Summary by the reader)

Chapters (95)

1Book I I. Of the Things Which Are in Our Power, and Not in Our Power

530

2II. How a Man on Every Occasion Can Maintain His Proper Character

560

3III. How a Man Should Proceed from the Principles of God Being the Father of All Men to the Rest

167

4IV. Of Progress or Improvement

550

5V. Against the Academics

181

6VI. Of Providence

660

7VII. Of the Use of Sophistical Arguments and Hypothetical and the Like

547

8VIII. That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed

259

9IX. How from the Fact That We Are Akin to God a Man May Proceed to the Consequences

599

10X. Against Those Who Eagerly Seek Preferment at Rome

249

11XI. Of Natural Affection

658

12XII. Of Contentment

566

13XIII. How Everything May Be Done Acceptably to the Gods

129

14XIV. That the Deity Oversees All Things

315

15XV. What Philosophy Promises

158

16XVI. Of Providence

317

17XVII. That the Logical Art is Necessary

450

18XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with the Errors (Faults) of Others

439

19XIX. How We Should Behave to Tyrants

474

20XX. About Reason, How I Contemplates Itself

306

21XXI. Against Those Who Wish to Be Admired

22XXII. On Precognition

352

23XXIII. Against Epicurus

150

24XXIV. How We Should Struggle with Circumstances

313

25XXV. On the Same

493

26XXVI. What is the Law of Life

324

27XXVII. In How Many Ways Appearances Exist, and What Aids We Should Provide Against Them

373

28XXVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with Men; and What are the Small and the Great Things Among Men

567

29XXIX. On Constancy (Or Firmness)

1086

30XXX. What We Ought to Have Ready in Difficult Circumstances

143

31Book II I. That Confidence (Courage) is Not Inconsistent with Caution

735

32II. Of Tranquility (Freedom from Perturbation)

369

33III. To Those Who Recommend Persons to Philosophers

128

34IV. Against a Person Who Had Once Been Detected in Adultery

234

35V. How Magnanimity Is Consistent with Care

525

36VI. Of Indifference

411

37VII. How We Ought to Use Divination

250

38VIII. What Is the Nature ('H Ουσία) Of the Good

546

39IX. That When We Cannot Fulfil That Which the Character of a Man Promises, We Assume the Character of a Philosopher

428

40X. How We May Discover the Duties of Life from Names

520

41XI. What the Beginning of Philosophy Is

431

42XII. Of Disputation or Discussion

411

43XIII. On Anxiety (Solicitude)

502

44XIV. To Naso

521

45XV. To or Against Those Who Obstinately Persist in What They Have Determined

357

46XVI. That We Do Not Strive to Use Our Opinions About Good and Evil

897

47XVII. How We Must Adapt Preconceptions to Particular Cases

724

48XVIII. How We Should Struggle Against Appearances

495

49XIX. Against Those Who Embrace Philosophical Opinions Only in Words

670

50XX. Against the Epicureans and the Academics

751

51XXI. Of Inconsistency

434

52XXII. On Friendship

763

53XXIII. On the Power of Speaking

884

54XXIV. To (Or Against) a Person Who Was One of Those Who Were Not Valued (Esteemed by Him)

568

55XXV. That Logic is Necessary

56XXVI. What Is the Property of Error

171

57Book III I. Of Finery in Dress

839

58II. In What a Man Ought to Be Exercised Who Has Made Proficiency and That We Neglect the Chief Things

391

59III. What Is the Matter on Which a Good Man Should be Employed, and in What We Ought Chiefly to Practice Ourselves

434

60IV. Against a Person Who Showed His Partisanship in an Unseemly Way in a Theatre

247

61V. Against Those Who on Account of Sickness Go Away Home

330

62VI. Miscellaneous

207

63VII. To the Administrator of the Free Cities Who Was an Epicurean

633

64VIII. How We Must Exercise Ourselves Against Appearances (Φαντασίασ)

179

65IX. To A Certain Rhetorician Who Was Going Up to Rome on a Suit

448

66X. In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness

402

67XI. Certain Misceallaneous Matters

68XII. About Exercise

375

69XIII. What Solitude Is, and What Kind of Person a Solitary Man Is

483

70XIV. Certain Miscellaneous Matters

201

71XV. That We Ought to Proceed with Circumspection to Everything

308

72XVI. That We Ought with Caution to Enter into Familiar Intercourse with Men

274

73XVII. On Providence

156

74XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Disturbed by Any News

166

75XIX. What is the Condition of a Common Kind of Man and of a Philosopher

132

76XX. That We Can Derive Advantage from All External Things

338

77XXI. Against Those Who Readily Come to the Profession of Sophists

442

78XXII. About Cynism

1974

79XXIII. To Those Who Read and Discuss for the Sake of Ostentation

787

80XXIV. That We Ought Not to Be Moved by a Desire of Those Things Which Are Not in Our Power

2326

81XXV. To Those Who Fall Off (Desist) from Their Purpose

224

82XXVI. To Those Who Fear Want

796

83Book IV I. About Freedom

3512

84II. On Familiar Intimacy

217

85III. What Things We Should Exchange for Other Things

243

86IV. To Those Who Are Desirous of Passing Life in Tranquility

1087

87V. Against the Quarrelsome and Ferocious

796

88VI. Against Those Who Lament Over Being Pitied

842

89VII. On Freedom From Fear

916

90VIII. Against Those Who Hastily Rush Into the Use of the Philosophic Dress

894

91IX. To a Person Who Had Been Changed to a Character of Shamelessness

381

92X. What Things We Ought to Despise, and What Things We Ought to Value

749

93XI. About Purity (Cleanliness)

786

94XII. On Attention

438

95XIII. Against or to Those Who Readily Tell Their Own Affairs

502

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