Starting with Stoicism
Discourses
Epictetus
1 min to start
8 hrs to read

Contents

Preface - Arrian to Lucius Gellius, with Wishes for His Happiness
1 min
Book I
I - Of the Things Which Are in Our Power, and Not in Our Power
4 mins
II - How a Man on Every Occasion Can Maintain His Proper Character
5 mins
III - How a Man Should Proceed from the Principle of God Being the Father of All Men to the Rest
1 min
IV - Of Progress or Improvement
4 mins
V - Against the Academics
1 min
VI - Of Providence
6 mins
VII - Of the Use of Sophistical Arguments and Hypothetical and the Like
4 mins
VIII - That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed
2 mins
IX - How from the Fact That We Are Akin to God a Man May Proceed to the Consequences
5 mins
X - Against Those Who Eagerly Seek Preferment at Rome
2 mins
XI - Of Natural Affection
6 mins
XII - Of Contentment
5 mins
XIII - How Everything May Be Done Acceptably to the Gods
1 min
XIV - That the Deity Oversees All Things
2 mins
XV - What Philosophy Promises
1 min
XVI - Of Providence
2 mins
XVII - That the Logical Art Is Necessary
3 mins
XVIII - That We Ought Not to Be Angry with the Errors (Faults) of Others
4 mins
XIX - How We Should Behave to Tyrants
4 mins
XX - About Reason, How It Contemplates Itself
2 mins
XXI - Against Those Who Wish to Be Admired
1 min
XXII - On Precognitions
3 mins
XXIII - Against Epicurus
1 min
XXIV - How We Should Struggle with Circumstances
2 mins
XXV - On the Same
4 mins
XXVI - What Is the Law of Life
3 mins
XXVII - In How Many Ways Appearances Exist, and What Aids We Should Provide Against Them
3 mins
XXVIII - That We Ought Not to Be Angry with Men; and What Are the Small and the Great Things Among Men
5 mins
XXIX - On Constancy (Or Firmness)
10 mins
XXX - What We Ought to Have Ready in Difficult Circumstances
1 min
Book II
I - That Confidence (Courage) Is Not Inconsistent with Caution
6 mins
II - Of Tranquillity (Freedom from Perturbation)
3 mins
III - To Those Who Recommend Persons to Philosophers
1 min
IV - Against a Person Who Had Once Been Detected in Adultery
2 mins
V - How Magnanimity Is Consistent with Care
5 mins
VI - Of Indifference
4 mins
VII - How We Ought to Use Divination
2 mins
VIII - What Is the Nature (Ἡ Οὐσία) of the Good
5 mins
IX - That When We Cannot Fulfil That Which the Character of a Man Promises, We Assume the Character of a Philosopher
3 mins
X - How We May Discover the Duties of Life from Names
4 mins
XI - What the Beginning of Philosophy Is
4 mins
XII - Of Disputation or Discussion
3 mins
XIII - On Anxiety (Solicitude)
4 mins
XIV - To Naso
4 mins
XV - To or Against Those Who Obstinately Persist in What They Have Determined
3 mins
XVI - That We Do Not Strive to Use Our Opinions About Good and Evil
8 mins
XVII - How We Must Adapt Preconceptions to Particular Cases
7 mins
XVIII - How We Should Struggle Against Appearances
4 mins
XIX - Against Those Who Embrace Philosophical Opinions Only in Words
6 mins
XX - Against the Epicureans and Academics
7 mins
XXI - Of Inconsistency
4 mins
XXII - On Friendship
7 mins
XXIII - On the Power of Speaking
9 mins
XXIV - To (Or Against) a Person Who Was One of Those Who Were Not Valued (Esteemed) by Him
5 mins
XXV - That Logic Is Necessary
1 min
XXVI - What Is the Property of Error
1 min
Book III
I - Of Finery in Dress
8 mins
II - In What a Man Ought to Be Exercised Who Has Made Proficiency; and That We Neglect the Chief Things
3 mins
III - What Is the Matter on Which a Good Man Should Be Employed, and in What We Ought Chiefly to Practice Ourselves
4 mins
IV - Against a Person Who Showed His Partisanship in an Unseemly Way in a Theatre
2 mins
V - Against Those Who on Account of Sickness Go Away Home
3 mins
VI - Miscellaneous
1 min
VII - To the Administrator of the Free Cities Who Was an Epicurean
6 mins
VIII - How We Must Exercise Ourselves Against Appearances (Φαντασίας)
1 min
IX - To a Certain Rhetorician Who Was Going Up to Rome on a Suit
4 mins
X - In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness
3 mins
XI - Certain Miscellaneous Matters
1 min
XII - About Exercise
3 mins
XIII - What Solitude Is, and What Kind of Person a Solitary Man Is
4 mins
XIV - Certain Miscellaneous Matters
1 min
XV - That We Ought to Proceed with Circumspection to Everything
2 mins
XVI - That We Ought with Caution to Enter Into Familiar Intercourse with Men
2 mins
XVII - On Providence
1 min
XVIII - That We Ought Not to Be Disturbed by Any News
1 min
XIX - What Is the Condition of a Common Kind of Man and of a Philosopher
1 min
XX - That We Can Derive Advantage from All External Things
3 mins
XXI - Against Those Who Readily Come to the Profession of Sophists
4 mins
XXII - About Cynism
20 mins
XXIII - To Those Who Read and Discuss for the Sake of Ostentation
7 mins
XXIV - That We Ought Not to Be Moved by a Desire of Those Things Which Are Not in Our Power
23 mins
XXV - To Those Who Fall Off (Desist) from Their Purpose
2 mins
XXVI - To Those Who Fear Want
7 mins
Book IV
I - About Freedom
35 mins
II - On Familiar Intimacy
1 min
III - What Things We Should Exchange for Other Things
2 mins
IV - To Those Who Are Desirous of Passing Life in Tranquillity
10 mins
V - Against the Quarrelsome and Ferocious
7 mins
VI - Against Those Who Lament Over Being Pitied VII: On Freedom from Fear
8 mins
VII - On Freedom from Fear
9 mins
VIII - Against Those Who Hastily Rush Into the Use of the Philosophic Dress
8 mins
IX - To a Person Who Had Been Changed to a Character of Shamelessness
3 mins
X - What Things We Ought to Despise, and What Things We Ought to Value
6 mins
XI - About Purity (Cleanliness)
7 mins
XII - On Attention
3 mins
XIII - Against or to Those Who Readily Tell Their Own Affairs
4 mins
Read next chapter  >>
Preface
Arrian to Lucius Gellius, with Wishes for His Happiness
1 min to read
273 words
Return to Starting with Stoicism





Comments