THE DISCOURSES
by
Epictetus
101 AD
Translated by George Long
CONTENTS:
CHAPTER 1 Of the things which are in our Power, and not in our Power
CHAPTER 2 How a Man on every occasion can maintain his Proper Character
CHAPTER 3 How a man should proceed from the principle of God being the father of all men to the rest
CHAPTER 4 Of progress or improvement
CHAPTER 5 Against the academics
CHAPTER 7 Of the use of sophistical arguments, and hypothetical, and the like
CHAPTER 8 That the faculties are not safe to the uninstructed
CHAPTER 9 How from the fact that we are akin to God a man may proceed to the consequences
CHAPTER 10 Against those who eagerly seek preferment at Rome
CHAPTER 11 Of natural affection
CHAPTER 13 How everything may he done acceptably to the gods
CHAPTER 14 That the deity oversees all things
CHAPTER 15 What philosophy promises
CHAPTER 17 That the logical art is necessary
CHAPTER 18 That we ought not to he angry with the errors of others
CHAPTER 20 About reason, how it contemplates itself
CHAPTER 21 Against those who wish to be admired
CHAPTER 24 How we should struggle with circumstances
CHAPTER 26 What is the law of life
CHAPTER 27 In how many ways appearances exist, and what aids we should provide against them
CHAPTER 1 That confidence is not inconsistent with caution
CHAPTER 3 To those who recommend persons to philosophers
CHAPTER 4 Against a person who had once been detected in adultery
CHAPTER 5 How magnanimity is consistent with care
CHAPTER 7 How we ought to use divination
CHAPTER 8 What is the nature of the good
CHAPTER 10 How we may discover the duties of life from names
CHAPTER 11 What the beginning of philosophy is
CHAPTER 12 Of disputation or discussion
CHAPTER 15 To or against those who obstinately persist in what they have determined
CHAPTER 16 That we do not strive to use our opinions about good and evil
CHAPTER 17 How we must adapt preconceptions to particular cases
CHAPTER 18 How we should struggle against appearances
CHAPTER 19 Against those who embrace, philosophical opinions only in words
CHAPTER 20 Against the Epicureans and Academics
CHAPTER 23 On the power of speaking
CHAPTER 24 To a person who was one of those who was not valued by him
CHAPTER 25 That logic is necessary
CHAPTER 26 What is the property of error
CHAPTER 4 Against a person who showed his partisanship in an unseemly way in a theatre
CHAPTER 5 Against those who on account of sickness go away home
CHAPTER 7 To the administrator of the free cities who was an Epicurean
CHAPTER 8 How we must exercise ourselves against appearances
CHAPTER 9 To a certain rhetorician who was going up to Rome on a suit
CHAPTER 10 In what manner we ought to bear sickness
CHAPTER 11 Certain miscellaneous matters
CHAPTER 13 What solitude is, and what kind of person a solitary man is
CHAPTER 14 Certain miscellaneous matters
CHAPTER 15 That we ought to proceed with circumspection to everything
CHAPTER 16 That we ought with caution to enter, into familiar intercourse with men
CHAPTER 18 That we ought not to be disturbed by any news
CHAPTER 19 What is the condition of a common kind of man and of a philosopher
CHAPTER 20 That we can derive advantage from all external things
CHAPTER 21 Against those who readily come to the profession of sophists
CHAPTER 23 To those who read and discuss for the sake of ostentation
CHAPTER 24 That we ought not to be moved by a desire of those things which are not in our power
CHAPTER 25 To those who fall off from their purpose
CHAPTER 26 To those who fear want
CHAPTER 2 On familiar intimacy
CHAPTER 3 What things we should exchange for other things
CHAPTER 4 To those who are desirous of passing life in tranquility
CHAPTER 5 Against the quarrelsome and ferocious
CHAPTER 6 Against those who lament over being pitied
CHAPTER 7 On freedom from fear
CHAPTER 8 Against those who hastily rush into the use of the philosophic dress
CHAPTER 9 To a person who had been changed to a character of shamelessness
CHAPTER 10 What things we ought to despise, and what things we ought to value
CHAPTER 13 Against or to those who readily tell their own affairs
Of all the faculties, you will find not one which is capable of contemplating itself; and, consequently, not capable either of approving or disapproving. How far does the grammatic art possess the contemplating power? As far as forming a judgement about what is written and spoken. And how far music? As far as judging about m