Discourses of Epictetus

Introduction and Preface

Episode 0 · 14:49

Book I I. Of the Things Which Are in Our Power, and Not in Our Power

Episode 1 · 8:50

II. How a Man on Every Occasion Can Maintain His Proper Character

Episode 2 · 9:20

III. How a Man Should Proceed from the Principles of God Being the Father of All Men to the Rest

Episode 3 · 2:47

IV. Of Progress or Improvement

Episode 4 · 9:10

V. Against the Academics

Episode 5 · 3:01

VI. Of Providence

Episode 6 · 11:00

VII. Of the Use of Sophistical Arguments and Hypothetical and the Like

Episode 7 · 9:07

VIII. That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed

Episode 8 · 4:19

IX. How from the Fact That We Are Akin to God a Man May Proceed to the Consequences

Episode 9 · 9:59

X. Against Those Who Eagerly Seek Preferment at Rome

Episode 10 · 4:09

XI. Of Natural Affection

Episode 11 · 10:58

XII. Of Contentment

Episode 12 · 9:26

XIII. How Everything May Be Done Acceptably to the Gods

Episode 13 · 2:09

XIV. That the Deity Oversees All Things

Episode 14 · 5:15

XV. What Philosophy Promises

Episode 15 · 2:38

XVI. Of Providence

Episode 16 · 5:17

XVII. That the Logical Art is Necessary

Episode 17 · 7:30

XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with the Errors (Faults) of Others

Episode 18 · 7:19

XIX. How We Should Behave to Tyrants

Episode 19 · 7:54

XX. About Reason, How I Contemplates Itself

Episode 20 · 5:06

XXI. Against Those Who Wish to Be Admired

Episode 21 · 1:20

XXII. On Precognition

Episode 22 · 5:52

XXIII. Against Epicurus

Episode 23 · 2:30

XXIV. How We Should Struggle with Circumstances

Episode 24 · 5:13

XXV. On the Same

Episode 25 · 8:13

XXVI. What is the Law of Life

Episode 26 · 5:24

XXVII. In How Many Ways Appearances Exist, and What Aids We Should Provide Against Them

Episode 27 · 6:13

XXVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with Men; and What are the Small and the Great Things Among Men

Episode 28 · 9:27

XXIX. On Constancy (Or Firmness)

Episode 29 · 18:06

XXX. What We Ought to Have Ready in Difficult Circumstances

Episode 30 · 2:23

Book II I. That Confidence (Courage) is Not Inconsistent with Caution

Episode 31 · 12:15

II. Of Tranquility (Freedom from Perturbation)

Episode 32 · 6:09

III. To Those Who Recommend Persons to Philosophers

Episode 33 · 2:08

IV. Against a Person Who Had Once Been Detected in Adultery

Episode 34 · 3:54

V. How Magnanimity Is Consistent with Care

Episode 35 · 8:45

VI. Of Indifference

Episode 36 · 6:51

VII. How We Ought to Use Divination

Episode 37 · 4:10

VIII. What Is the Nature ('H Ουσία) Of the Good

Episode 38 · 9:06

IX. That When We Cannot Fulfil That Which the Character of a Man Promises, We Assume the Character of a Philosopher

Episode 39 · 7:08

X. How We May Discover the Duties of Life from Names

Episode 40 · 8:40

XI. What the Beginning of Philosophy Is

Episode 41 · 7:11

XII. Of Disputation or Discussion

Episode 42 · 6:51

XIII. On Anxiety (Solicitude)

Episode 43 · 8:22

XIV. To Naso

Episode 44 · 8:41

XV. To or Against Those Who Obstinately Persist in What They Have Determined

Episode 45 · 5:57

XVI. That We Do Not Strive to Use Our Opinions About Good and Evil

Episode 46 · 14:57

XVII. How We Must Adapt Preconceptions to Particular Cases

Episode 47 · 12:04

XVIII. How We Should Struggle Against Appearances

Episode 48 · 8:15

XIX. Against Those Who Embrace Philosophical Opinions Only in Words

Episode 49 · 11:10

XX. Against the Epicureans and the Academics

Episode 50 · 12:31

XXI. Of Inconsistency

Episode 51 · 7:14

XXII. On Friendship

Episode 52 · 12:43

XXIII. On the Power of Speaking

Episode 53 · 14:44

XXIV. To (Or Against) a Person Who Was One of Those Who Were Not Valued (Esteemed by Him)

Episode 54 · 9:28

XXV. That Logic is Necessary

Episode 55 · 1:05

XXVI. What Is the Property of Error

Episode 56 · 2:51

Book III I. Of Finery in Dress

Episode 57 · 13:59

II. In What a Man Ought to Be Exercised Who Has Made Proficiency and That We Neglect the Chief Things

Episode 58 · 6:31

III. What Is the Matter on Which a Good Man Should be Employed, and in What We Ought Chiefly to Practice Ourselves

Episode 59 · 7:14

IV. Against a Person Who Showed His Partisanship in an Unseemly Way in a Theatre

Episode 60 · 4:07

V. Against Those Who on Account of Sickness Go Away Home

Episode 61 · 5:30

VI. Miscellaneous

Episode 62 · 3:27

VII. To the Administrator of the Free Cities Who Was an Epicurean

Episode 63 · 10:33

VIII. How We Must Exercise Ourselves Against Appearances (Φαντασίασ)

Episode 64 · 2:59

IX. To A Certain Rhetorician Who Was Going Up to Rome on a Suit

Episode 65 · 7:28

X. In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness

Episode 66 · 6:42

XI. Certain Misceallaneous Matters

Episode 67 · 1:39

XII. About Exercise

Episode 68 · 6:15

XIII. What Solitude Is, and What Kind of Person a Solitary Man Is

Episode 69 · 8:03

XIV. Certain Miscellaneous Matters

Episode 70 · 3:21

XV. That We Ought to Proceed with Circumspection to Everything

Episode 71 · 5:08

XVI. That We Ought with Caution to Enter into Familiar Intercourse with Men

Episode 72 · 4:34

XVII. On Providence

Episode 73 · 2:36

XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Disturbed by Any News

Episode 74 · 2:46

XIX. What is the Condition of a Common Kind of Man and of a Philosopher

Episode 75 · 2:12

XX. That We Can Derive Advantage from All External Things

Episode 76 · 5:38

XXI. Against Those Who Readily Come to the Profession of Sophists

Episode 77 · 7:22

XXII. About Cynism

Episode 78 · 32:54

XXIII. To Those Who Read and Discuss for the Sake of Ostentation

Episode 79 · 13:07

XXIV. That We Ought Not to Be Moved by a Desire of Those Things Which Are Not in Our Power

Episode 80 · 38:46

XXV. To Those Who Fall Off (Desist) from Their Purpose

Episode 81 · 3:44

XXVI. To Those Who Fear Want

Episode 82 · 13:16

Book IV I. About Freedom

Episode 83 · 58:32

II. On Familiar Intimacy

Episode 84 · 3:37

III. What Things We Should Exchange for Other Things

Episode 85 · 4:03

IV. To Those Who Are Desirous of Passing Life in Tranquility

Episode 86 · 18:07

V. Against the Quarrelsome and Ferocious

Episode 87 · 13:16

VI. Against Those Who Lament Over Being Pitied

Episode 88 · 14:02

VII. On Freedom From Fear

Episode 89 · 15:16

VIII. Against Those Who Hastily Rush Into the Use of the Philosophic Dress

Episode 90 · 14:54

IX. To a Person Who Had Been Changed to a Character of Shamelessness

Episode 91 · 6:21

X. What Things We Ought to Despise, and What Things We Ought to Value

Episode 92 · 12:29

XI. About Purity (Cleanliness)

Episode 93 · 13:06

XII. On Attention

Episode 94 · 7:18

XIII. Against or to Those Who Readily Tell Their Own Affairs

Episode 95 · 8:22

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