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Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion

Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion

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Selection of text from the four-volume work by Epictetus commonly referred to as the Discourses. The sections are mostly quite short but packed with wisdom and hard earned experience. Also included is the Encheiridion ("Manual"), a summary of theoretical and applied Stoicism.

Chapters

  • 01
    Biographical Note
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  • 02
    Of the Things Which Are in Our Power and Not in Our Power
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  • 03
    How a Man Can on Every Occasion Maintain His Proper Character
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  • 04
    How a Man Should Proceed from the Principle of God Being the Father to All the Rest
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  • 05
    Of Progress or Improvement
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  • 06
    Against the Academics
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  • 07
    OF PROVIDENCE
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  • 08
    HOW FROM THE FACT THAT WE ARE AKIN TO GOD A MAN MAY PROCEED TO THE CONSEQUENCES
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  • 09
    OF CONTENTMENT
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  • 10
    HOW EVERYTHING MAY BE DONE ACCEPTABLY TO THE GODS
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  • 11
    WHAT PHILOSOPHY PROMISES
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  • 12
    THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH THE ERRORS (FAULTS) OF OTHERS
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  • 13
    HOW WE SHOULD BEHAVE TO TYRANTS
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  • 14
    AGAINST THOSE WHO WISH TO BE ADMIRED
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    ON PRÆCOGNITIONS
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    HOW WE SHOULD STRUGGLE WITH CIRCUMSTANCES
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    ON THE SAME
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    IN HOW MANY WAYS APPEARANCES EXIST, AND WHAT AIDS WE SHOULD PROVIDE AGAINST THEM
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  • 19
    THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH MEN; AND WHAT ARE THE SMALL AND THE GREAT THINGS AMONG MEN
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  • 20
    ON CONSTANCY (OR FIRMNESS)
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  • 21
    THAT CONFIDENCE (COURAGE) IS NOT INCONSISTENT WITH CAUTION
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  • 22
    OF TRANQUILLITY (FREEDOM FROM PERTURBATION)
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  • 23
    HOW MAGNANIMITY IS CONSISTENT WITH CARE
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  • 24
    OF INDIFFERENCE
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    HOW WE OUGHT TO USE DIVINATION
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    THAT WHEN WE CANNOT FULFIL THAT WHICH THE CHARACTER OF A MAN PROMISES, WE ASSUME THE CHARACTER OF A PHILOSOPHER
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    HOW WE MAY DISCOVER THE DUTIES OF LIFE FROM NAMES
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  • 28
    WHAT THE BEGINNING OF PHILOSOPHY IS
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  • 29
    OF DISPUTATION OR DISCUSSION
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  • 30
    ON ANXIETY (SOLICITUDE)
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    TO NASO
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    TO OR AGAINST THOSE WHO OBSTINATELY PERSIST IN WHAT THEY HAVE DETERMINED
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    THAT WE DO NOT STRIVE TO USE OUR OPINIONS ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL
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    HOW WE MUST ADAPT PRECONCEPTIONS TO PARTICULAR CASES
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    HOW WE SHOULD STRUGGLE AGAINST APPEARANCES
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    OF INCONSISTENCY
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    ON FRIENDSHIP
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    ON THE POWER OF SPEAKING
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    TO (OR AGAINST) A PERSON WHO WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO WERE NOT VALUED (ESTEEMED) BY HIM
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    THAT LOGIC IS NECESSARY
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    OF FINERY IN DRESS
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  • 42
    IN WHAT A MAN OUGHT TO BE EXERCISED WHO HAS MADE PROFICIENCY; AND THAT WE NEGLECT THE CHIEF THINGS
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    WHAT IS THE MATTER ON WHICH A GOOD MAN SHOULD BE EMPLOYED, AND IN WHAT WE OUGHT CHIEFLY TO PRACTISE OURSELVES
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    MISCELLANEOUS
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    TO THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE FREE CITIES WHO WAS AN EPICUREAN
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    HOW WE MUST EXERCISE OURSELVES AGAINST APPEARANCES
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    TO A CERTAIN RHETORICIAN WHO WAS GOING UP TO ROME ON A SUIT
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    IN WHAT MANNER WE OUGHT TO BEAR SICKNESS
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    ABOUT EXERCISE
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    WHAT SOLITUDE IS, AND WHAT KIND OF PERSON A SOLITARY MAN IS
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    CERTAIN MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS
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    THAT WE OUGHT TO PROCEED WITH CIRCUMSPECTION TO EVERYTHING
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    THAT WE OUGHT WITH CAUTION TO ENTER INTO FAMILIAR INTERCOURSE WITH MEN
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    ON PROVIDENCE
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    ABOUT CYNICISM
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    THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE MOVED BY A DESIRE OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT IN OUR POWER
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    TO THOSE WHO FALL OFF (DESIST) FROM THEIR PURPOSE
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    TO THOSE WHO FEAR WANT
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    ABOUT FREEDOM
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    ON FAMILIAR INTIMACY
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    WHAT THINGS WE SHOULD EXCHANGE FOR OTHER THINGS
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    TO THOSE WHO ARE DESIROUS OF PASSING LIFE IN TRANQUILLITY
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    AGAINST THE QUARRELSOME AND FEROCIOUS
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    AGAINST THOSE WHO LAMENT OVER BEING PITIED
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    ON FREEDOM FROM FEAR
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    TO A PERSON WHO HAD BEEN CHANGED TO A CHARACTER OF SHAMELESSNESS
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    WHAT THINGS WE OUGHT TO DESPISE AND WHAT THINGS WE OUGHT TO VALUE
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    ABOUT PURITY (CLEANLINESS)
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    ON ATTENTION
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    AGAINST OR TO THOSE WHO READILY TELL THEIR OWN AFFAIRS
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    THE ENCHEIRIDION: 1 - 10
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  • 72
    THE ENCHEIRIDION: 11 - 20
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  • 73
    THE ENCHEIRIDION: 21 - 30
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  • 74
    THE ENCHEIRIDION: 31 - 40
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  • 75
    THE ENCHEIRIDION: 41 - 52
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