Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion

75 chapters

1. 1Biographical Note8m
2. 2Of the Things Which Are in Our Power and Not in Our Power4m
3. 3How a Man Can on Every Occasion Maintain His Proper Character2m
4. 4How a Man Should Proceed from the Principle of God Being the Father to All the Rest3m
5. 5Of Progress or Improvement8m
6. 6Against the Academics2m
7. 7OF PROVIDENCE8m
8. 8HOW FROM THE FACT THAT WE ARE AKIN TO GOD A MAN MAY PROCEED TO THE CONSEQUENCES3m
9. 9OF CONTENTMENT.7m
10. 10HOW EVERYTHING MAY BE DONE ACCEPTABLY TO THE GODS2m
11. 11WHAT PHILOSOPHY PROMISES3m
12. 12THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH THE ERRORS (FAULTS) OF OTHERS5m
13. 13HOW WE SHOULD BEHAVE TO TYRANTS5m
14. 14AGAINST THOSE WHO WISH TO BE ADMIRED1m
15. 15ON PRÆCOGNITIONS5m
16. 16HOW WE SHOULD STRUGGLE WITH CIRCUMSTANCES3m
17. 17ON THE SAME5m
18. 18IN HOW MANY WAYS APPEARANCES EXIST, AND WHAT AIDS WE SHOULD PROVIDE AGAINST THEM5m
19. 19THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH MEN; AND WHAT ARE THE SMALL AND THE GREAT THINGS AMONG MEN.8m
20. 20ON CONSTANCY (OR FIRMNESS)10m
21. 21THAT CONFIDENCE (COURAGE) IS NOT INCONSISTENT WITH CAUTION10m
22. 22OF TRANQUILLITY (FREEDOM FROM PERTURBATION)6m
23. 23HOW MAGNANIMITY IS CONSISTENT WITH CARE.7m
24. 24OF INDIFFERENCE5m
25. 25HOW WE OUGHT TO USE DIVINATION9m
26. 26THAT WHEN WE CANNOT FULFIL THAT WHICH THE CHARACTER OF A MAN PROMISES, WE ASSUME THE CHARACTER OF A PHILOSOPHER7m
27. 27HOW WE MAY DISCOVER THE DUTIES OF LIFE FROM NAMES.7m
28. 28WHAT THE BEGINNING OF PHILOSOPHY IS7m
29. 29OF DISPUTATION OR DISCUSSION3m
30. 30ON ANXIETY (SOLICITUDE)7m
31. 31TO NASO4m
32. 32TO OR AGAINST THOSE WHO OBSTINATELY PERSIST IN WHAT THEY HAVE DETERMINED.6m
33. 33THAT WE DO NOT STRIVE TO USE OUR OPINIONS ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL6m
34. 34HOW WE MUST ADAPT PRECONCEPTIONS TO PARTICULAR CASES2m
35. 35HOW WE SHOULD STRUGGLE AGAINST APPEARANCES6m
36. 36OF INCONSISTENCY.5m
37. 37ON FRIENDSHIP9m
38. 38ON THE POWER OF SPEAKING9m
39. 39TO (OR AGAINST) A PERSON WHO WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO WERE NOT VALUED (ESTEEMED) BY HIM.5m
40. 40THAT LOGIC IS NECESSARY.1m
41. 41OF FINERY IN DRESS3m
42. 42IN WHAT A MAN OUGHT TO BE EXERCISED WHO HAS MADE PROFICIENCY; AND THAT WE NEGLECT THE CHIEF THINGS7m
43. 43WHAT IS THE MATTER ON WHICH A GOOD MAN SHOULD BE EMPLOYED, AND IN WHAT WE OUGHT CHIEFLY TO PRACTISE OURSELVES5m
44. 44MISCELLANEOUS2m
45. 45TO THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE FREE CITIES WHO WAS AN EPICUREAN5m
46. 46HOW WE MUST EXERCISE OURSELVES AGAINST APPEARANCES3m
47. 47TO A CERTAIN RHETORICIAN WHO WAS GOING UP TO ROME ON A SUIT6m
48. 48IN WHAT MANNER WE OUGHT TO BEAR SICKNESS7m
49. 49ABOUT EXERCISE3m
50. 50WHAT SOLITUDE IS, AND WHAT KIND OF PERSON A SOLITARY MAN IS5m
51. 51CERTAIN MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS3m
52. 52THAT WE OUGHT TO PROCEED WITH CIRCUMSPECTION TO EVERYTHING4m
53. 53THAT WE OUGHT WITH CAUTION TO ENTER INTO FAMILIAR INTERCOURSE WITH MEN.4m
54. 54ON PROVIDENCE2m
55. 55ABOUT CYNICISM9m
56. 56THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE MOVED BY A DESIRE OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT IN OUR POWER17m
57. 57TO THOSE WHO FALL OFF (DESIST) FROM THEIR PURPOSE3m
58. 58TO THOSE WHO FEAR WANT6m
59. 59ABOUT FREEDOM20m
60. 60ON FAMILIAR INTIMACY.1m
61. 61WHAT THINGS WE SHOULD EXCHANGE FOR OTHER THINGS5m
62. 62TO THOSE WHO ARE DESIROUS OF PASSING LIFE IN TRANQUILLITY.9m
63. 63AGAINST THE QUARRELSOME AND FEROCIOUS12m
64. 64AGAINST THOSE WHO LAMENT OVER BEING PITIED4m
65. 65ON FREEDOM FROM FEAR7m
66. 66TO A PERSON WHO HAD BEEN CHANGED TO A CHARACTER OF SHAMELESSNESS1m
67. 67WHAT THINGS WE OUGHT TO DESPISE AND WHAT THINGS WE OUGHT TO VALUE6m
68. 68ABOUT PURITY (CLEANLINESS)6m
69. 69ON ATTENTION5m
70. 70AGAINST OR TO THOSE WHO READILY TELL THEIR OWN AFFAIRS.5m
71. 71THE ENCHEIRIDION: 1 - 1010m
72. 72THE ENCHEIRIDION: 11 - 208m
73. 73THE ENCHEIRIDION: 21 - 3013m
74. 74THE ENCHEIRIDION: 31 - 4014m
75. 75THE ENCHEIRIDION: 41 - 5212m