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Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion

Epictetus

Read by TriciaG, D. Scott Warren, Paul Lawley-Jones, AstroLyon, CadenB, Adrian Stephens, Phil Schempf, seanmcwilliamsvo, realisticspeakers, Sonia and Daniel William Bader · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Biographical Note (8:25)
Of the Things Which Are in Our Power and Not in Our Power (4:08)
How a Man Can on Every Occasion Maintain His Proper Character (2:12)
How a Man Should Proceed from the Principle of God Being the Father to All the Rest (2:30)
Of Progress or Improvement (7:51)
Against the Academics (1:37)
OF PROVIDENCE (7:36)
HOW FROM THE FACT THAT WE ARE AKIN TO GOD A MAN MAY PROCEED TO THE CONSEQUENCES (3:12)
OF CONTENTMENT. (6:31)
HOW EVERYTHING MAY BE DONE ACCEPTABLY TO THE GODS (2:00)
WHAT PHILOSOPHY PROMISES (2:38)
THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH THE ERRORS (FAULTS) OF OTHERS (4:48)
HOW WE SHOULD BEHAVE TO TYRANTS (4:46)
AGAINST THOSE WHO WISH TO BE ADMIRED (1:19)
ON PRÆCOGNITIONS (4:37)
HOW WE SHOULD STRUGGLE WITH CIRCUMSTANCES (2:57)
ON THE SAME (5:17)
IN HOW MANY WAYS APPEARANCES EXIST, AND WHAT AIDS WE SHOULD PROVIDE AGAINST THEM (4:56)
THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH MEN; AND WHAT ARE THE SMALL AND THE GREAT THINGS AMONG MEN. (7:55)
ON CONSTANCY (OR FIRMNESS) (10:26)
THAT CONFIDENCE (COURAGE) IS NOT INCONSISTENT WITH CAUTION (9:54)
OF TRANQUILLITY (FREEDOM FROM PERTURBATION) (5:36)
HOW MAGNANIMITY IS CONSISTENT WITH CARE. (6:35)
OF INDIFFERENCE (5:26)
HOW WE OUGHT TO USE DIVINATION (9:25)
THAT WHEN WE CANNOT FULFIL THAT WHICH THE CHARACTER OF A MAN PROMISES, WE ASSUME THE CHARACTER OF A PHILOSOPHER (7:02)
HOW WE MAY DISCOVER THE DUTIES OF LIFE FROM NAMES. (6:31)
WHAT THE BEGINNING OF PHILOSOPHY IS (7:22)
OF DISPUTATION OR DISCUSSION (2:30)
ON ANXIETY (SOLICITUDE) (7:04)
TO NASO (4:27)
TO OR AGAINST THOSE WHO OBSTINATELY PERSIST IN WHAT THEY HAVE DETERMINED. (6:03)
THAT WE DO NOT STRIVE TO USE OUR OPINIONS ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL (6:03)
HOW WE MUST ADAPT PRECONCEPTIONS TO PARTICULAR CASES (2:27)
HOW WE SHOULD STRUGGLE AGAINST APPEARANCES (6:28)
OF INCONSISTENCY. (4:37)
ON FRIENDSHIP (8:39)
ON THE POWER OF SPEAKING (8:46)
TO (OR AGAINST) A PERSON WHO WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO WERE NOT VALUED (ESTEEMED) BY HIM. (4:49)
THAT LOGIC IS NECESSARY. (1:16)
OF FINERY IN DRESS (3:20)
IN WHAT A MAN OUGHT TO BE EXERCISED WHO HAS MADE PROFICIENCY; AND THAT WE NEGLECT THE CHIEF THINGS (6:39)
WHAT IS THE MATTER ON WHICH A GOOD MAN SHOULD BE EMPLOYED, AND IN WHAT WE OUGHT CHIEFLY TO PRACTISE OURSELVES (4:35)
MISCELLANEOUS (1:55)
TO THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE FREE CITIES WHO WAS AN EPICUREAN (5:15)
HOW WE MUST EXERCISE OURSELVES AGAINST APPEARANCES (3:18)
TO A CERTAIN RHETORICIAN WHO WAS GOING UP TO ROME ON A SUIT (6:06)
IN WHAT MANNER WE OUGHT TO BEAR SICKNESS (7:05)
ABOUT EXERCISE (3:12)
WHAT SOLITUDE IS, AND WHAT KIND OF PERSON A SOLITARY MAN IS (4:59)
CERTAIN MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS (3:02)
THAT WE OUGHT TO PROCEED WITH CIRCUMSPECTION TO EVERYTHING (4:05)
THAT WE OUGHT WITH CAUTION TO ENTER INTO FAMILIAR INTERCOURSE WITH MEN. (3:45)
ON PROVIDENCE (2:15)
ABOUT CYNICISM (8:44)
THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE MOVED BY A DESIRE OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT IN OUR POWER (17:11)
TO THOSE WHO FALL OFF (DESIST) FROM THEIR PURPOSE (2:39)
TO THOSE WHO FEAR WANT (5:47)
ABOUT FREEDOM (19:39)
ON FAMILIAR INTIMACY. (1:27)
WHAT THINGS WE SHOULD EXCHANGE FOR OTHER THINGS (4:32)
TO THOSE WHO ARE DESIROUS OF PASSING LIFE IN TRANQUILLITY. (9:03)
AGAINST THE QUARRELSOME AND FEROCIOUS (11:48)
AGAINST THOSE WHO LAMENT OVER BEING PITIED (3:55)
ON FREEDOM FROM FEAR (7:07)
TO A PERSON WHO HAD BEEN CHANGED TO A CHARACTER OF SHAMELESSNESS (1:19)
WHAT THINGS WE OUGHT TO DESPISE AND WHAT THINGS WE OUGHT TO VALUE (6:06)
ABOUT PURITY (CLEANLINESS) (6:05)
ON ATTENTION (5:06)
AGAINST OR TO THOSE WHO READILY TELL THEIR OWN AFFAIRS. (5:28)
THE ENCHEIRIDION: 1 - 10 (9:39)
THE ENCHEIRIDION: 11 - 20 (7:56)
THE ENCHEIRIDION: 21 - 30 (12:47)
THE ENCHEIRIDION: 31 - 40 (13:49)
THE ENCHEIRIDION: 41 - 52 (12:04)