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Discourses of Epictetus

Epictetus

Read by Christine Rottger · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Introduction and Preface (14:49)
Book I I. Of the Things Which Are in Our Power, and Not in Our Power (8:50)
II. How a Man on Every Occasion Can Maintain His Proper Character (9:20)
III. How a Man Should Proceed from the Principles of God Being the Father of All Men to the Rest (2:47)
IV. Of Progress or Improvement (9:10)
V. Against the Academics (3:01)
VI. Of Providence (11:00)
VII. Of the Use of Sophistical Arguments and Hypothetical and the Like (9:07)
VIII. That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed (4:19)
IX. How from the Fact That We Are Akin to God a Man May Proceed to the Consequences (9:59)
X. Against Those Who Eagerly Seek Preferment at Rome (4:09)
XI. Of Natural Affection (10:58)
XII. Of Contentment (9:26)
XIII. How Everything May Be Done Acceptably to the Gods (2:09)
XIV. That the Deity Oversees All Things (5:15)
XV. What Philosophy Promises (2:38)
XVI. Of Providence (5:17)
XVII. That the Logical Art is Necessary (7:30)
XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with the Errors (Faults) of Others (7:19)
XIX. How We Should Behave to Tyrants (7:54)
XX. About Reason, How I Contemplates Itself (5:06)
XXI. Against Those Who Wish to Be Admired (1:20)
XXII. On Precognition (5:52)
XXIII. Against Epicurus (2:30)
XXIV. How We Should Struggle with Circumstances (5:13)
XXV. On the Same (8:13)
XXVI. What is the Law of Life (5:24)
XXVII. In How Many Ways Appearances Exist, and What Aids We Should Provide Against Them (6:13)
XXVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with Men; and What are the Small and the Great Things Among Men (9:27)
XXIX. On Constancy (Or Firmness) (18:06)
XXX. What We Ought to Have Ready in Difficult Circumstances (2:23)
Book II I. That Confidence (Courage) is Not Inconsistent with Caution (12:15)
II. Of Tranquility (Freedom from Perturbation) (6:09)
III. To Those Who Recommend Persons to Philosophers (2:08)
IV. Against a Person Who Had Once Been Detected in Adultery (3:54)
V. How Magnanimity Is Consistent with Care (8:45)
VI. Of Indifference (6:51)
VII. How We Ought to Use Divination (4:10)
VIII. What Is the Nature ('H Ουσία) Of the Good (9:06)
IX. That When We Cannot Fulfil That Which the Character of a Man Promises, We Assume the Character of a Philosopher (7:08)
X. How We May Discover the Duties of Life from Names (8:40)
XI. What the Beginning of Philosophy Is (7:11)
XII. Of Disputation or Discussion (6:51)
XIII. On Anxiety (Solicitude) (8:22)
XIV. To Naso (8:41)
XV. To or Against Those Who Obstinately Persist in What They Have Determined (5:57)
XVI. That We Do Not Strive to Use Our Opinions About Good and Evil (14:57)
XVII. How We Must Adapt Preconceptions to Particular Cases (12:04)
XVIII. How We Should Struggle Against Appearances (8:15)
XIX. Against Those Who Embrace Philosophical Opinions Only in Words (11:10)
XX. Against the Epicureans and the Academics (12:31)
XXI. Of Inconsistency (7:14)
XXII. On Friendship (12:43)
XXIII. On the Power of Speaking (14:44)
XXIV. To (Or Against) a Person Who Was One of Those Who Were Not Valued (Esteemed by Him) (9:28)
XXV. That Logic is Necessary (1:05)
XXVI. What Is the Property of Error (2:51)
Book III I. Of Finery in Dress (13:59)
II. In What a Man Ought to Be Exercised Who Has Made Proficiency and That We Neglect the Chief Things (6:31)
III. What Is the Matter on Which a Good Man Should be Employed, and in What We Ought Chiefly to Practice Ourselves (7:14)
IV. Against a Person Who Showed His Partisanship in an Unseemly Way in a Theatre (4:07)
V. Against Those Who on Account of Sickness Go Away Home (5:30)
VI. Miscellaneous (3:27)
VII. To the Administrator of the Free Cities Who Was an Epicurean (10:33)
VIII. How We Must Exercise Ourselves Against Appearances (Φαντασίασ) (2:59)
IX. To A Certain Rhetorician Who Was Going Up to Rome on a Suit (7:28)
X. In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness (6:42)
XI. Certain Misceallaneous Matters (1:39)
XII. About Exercise (6:15)
XIII. What Solitude Is, and What Kind of Person a Solitary Man Is (8:03)
XIV. Certain Miscellaneous Matters (3:21)
XV. That We Ought to Proceed with Circumspection to Everything (5:08)
XVI. That We Ought with Caution to Enter into Familiar Intercourse with Men (4:34)
XVII. On Providence (2:36)
XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Disturbed by Any News (2:46)
XIX. What is the Condition of a Common Kind of Man and of a Philosopher (2:12)
XX. That We Can Derive Advantage from All External Things (5:38)
XXI. Against Those Who Readily Come to the Profession of Sophists (7:22)
XXII. About Cynism (32:54)
XXIII. To Those Who Read and Discuss for the Sake of Ostentation (13:07)
XXIV. That We Ought Not to Be Moved by a Desire of Those Things Which Are Not in Our Power (38:46)
XXV. To Those Who Fall Off (Desist) from Their Purpose (3:44)
XXVI. To Those Who Fear Want (13:16)
Book IV I. About Freedom (58:32)
II. On Familiar Intimacy (3:37)
III. What Things We Should Exchange for Other Things (4:03)
IV. To Those Who Are Desirous of Passing Life in Tranquility (18:07)
V. Against the Quarrelsome and Ferocious (13:16)
VI. Against Those Who Lament Over Being Pitied (14:02)
VII. On Freedom From Fear (15:16)
VIII. Against Those Who Hastily Rush Into the Use of the Philosophic Dress (14:54)
IX. To a Person Who Had Been Changed to a Character of Shamelessness (6:21)
X. What Things We Ought to Despise, and What Things We Ought to Value (12:29)
XI. About Purity (Cleanliness) (13:06)
XII. On Attention (7:18)
XIII. Against or to Those Who Readily Tell Their Own Affairs (8:22)