Discourses, стр. 1

Discourses

By Epictetus.

Translated by George Long.

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Introduction
Preface
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
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