Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion

Biographical Note

Episode 1 · 8:25

Of the Things Which Are in Our Power and Not in Our Power

Episode 2 · 4:08

How a Man Can on Every Occasion Maintain His Proper Character

Episode 3 · 2:12

How a Man Should Proceed from the Principle of God Being the Father to All the Rest

Episode 4 · 2:30

Of Progress or Improvement

Episode 5 · 7:51

Against the Academics

Episode 6 · 1:37

OF PROVIDENCE

Episode 7 · 7:36

HOW FROM THE FACT THAT WE ARE AKIN TO GOD A MAN MAY PROCEED TO THE CONSEQUENCES

Episode 8 · 3:12

OF CONTENTMENT.

Episode 9 · 6:31

HOW EVERYTHING MAY BE DONE ACCEPTABLY TO THE GODS

Episode 10 · 2:00

WHAT PHILOSOPHY PROMISES

Episode 11 · 2:38

THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH THE ERRORS (FAULTS) OF OTHERS

Episode 12 · 4:48

HOW WE SHOULD BEHAVE TO TYRANTS

Episode 13 · 4:46

AGAINST THOSE WHO WISH TO BE ADMIRED

Episode 14 · 1:19

ON PRÆCOGNITIONS

Episode 15 · 4:37

HOW WE SHOULD STRUGGLE WITH CIRCUMSTANCES

Episode 16 · 2:57

ON THE SAME

Episode 17 · 5:17

IN HOW MANY WAYS APPEARANCES EXIST, AND WHAT AIDS WE SHOULD PROVIDE AGAINST THEM

Episode 18 · 4:56

THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH MEN; AND WHAT ARE THE SMALL AND THE GREAT THINGS AMONG MEN.

Episode 19 · 7:55

ON CONSTANCY (OR FIRMNESS)

Episode 20 · 10:26

THAT CONFIDENCE (COURAGE) IS NOT INCONSISTENT WITH CAUTION

Episode 21 · 9:54

OF TRANQUILLITY (FREEDOM FROM PERTURBATION)

Episode 22 · 5:36

HOW MAGNANIMITY IS CONSISTENT WITH CARE.

Episode 23 · 6:35

OF INDIFFERENCE

Episode 24 · 5:26

HOW WE OUGHT TO USE DIVINATION

Episode 25 · 9:25

THAT WHEN WE CANNOT FULFIL THAT WHICH THE CHARACTER OF A MAN PROMISES, WE ASSUME THE CHARACTER OF A PHILOSOPHER

Episode 26 · 7:02

HOW WE MAY DISCOVER THE DUTIES OF LIFE FROM NAMES.

Episode 27 · 6:31

WHAT THE BEGINNING OF PHILOSOPHY IS

Episode 28 · 7:22

OF DISPUTATION OR DISCUSSION

Episode 29 · 2:30

ON ANXIETY (SOLICITUDE)

Episode 30 · 7:04

TO NASO

Episode 31 · 4:27

TO OR AGAINST THOSE WHO OBSTINATELY PERSIST IN WHAT THEY HAVE DETERMINED.

Episode 32 · 6:03

THAT WE DO NOT STRIVE TO USE OUR OPINIONS ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL

Episode 33 · 6:03

HOW WE MUST ADAPT PRECONCEPTIONS TO PARTICULAR CASES

Episode 34 · 2:27

HOW WE SHOULD STRUGGLE AGAINST APPEARANCES

Episode 35 · 6:28

OF INCONSISTENCY.

Episode 36 · 4:37

ON FRIENDSHIP

Episode 37 · 8:39

ON THE POWER OF SPEAKING

Episode 38 · 8:46

TO (OR AGAINST) A PERSON WHO WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO WERE NOT VALUED (ESTEEMED) BY HIM.

Episode 39 · 4:49

THAT LOGIC IS NECESSARY.

Episode 40 · 1:16

OF FINERY IN DRESS

Episode 41 · 3:20

IN WHAT A MAN OUGHT TO BE EXERCISED WHO HAS MADE PROFICIENCY; AND THAT WE NEGLECT THE CHIEF THINGS

Episode 42 · 6:39

WHAT IS THE MATTER ON WHICH A GOOD MAN SHOULD BE EMPLOYED, AND IN WHAT WE OUGHT CHIEFLY TO PRACTISE OURSELVES

Episode 43 · 4:35

MISCELLANEOUS

Episode 44 · 1:55

TO THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE FREE CITIES WHO WAS AN EPICUREAN

Episode 45 · 5:15

HOW WE MUST EXERCISE OURSELVES AGAINST APPEARANCES

Episode 46 · 3:18

TO A CERTAIN RHETORICIAN WHO WAS GOING UP TO ROME ON A SUIT

Episode 47 · 6:06

IN WHAT MANNER WE OUGHT TO BEAR SICKNESS

Episode 48 · 7:05

ABOUT EXERCISE

Episode 49 · 3:12

WHAT SOLITUDE IS, AND WHAT KIND OF PERSON A SOLITARY MAN IS

Episode 50 · 4:59

CERTAIN MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

Episode 51 · 3:02

THAT WE OUGHT TO PROCEED WITH CIRCUMSPECTION TO EVERYTHING

Episode 52 · 4:05

THAT WE OUGHT WITH CAUTION TO ENTER INTO FAMILIAR INTERCOURSE WITH MEN.

Episode 53 · 3:45

ON PROVIDENCE

Episode 54 · 2:15

ABOUT CYNICISM

Episode 55 · 8:44

THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE MOVED BY A DESIRE OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT IN OUR POWER

Episode 56 · 17:11

TO THOSE WHO FALL OFF (DESIST) FROM THEIR PURPOSE

Episode 57 · 2:39

TO THOSE WHO FEAR WANT

Episode 58 · 5:47

ABOUT FREEDOM

Episode 59 · 19:39

ON FAMILIAR INTIMACY.

Episode 60 · 1:27

WHAT THINGS WE SHOULD EXCHANGE FOR OTHER THINGS

Episode 61 · 4:32

TO THOSE WHO ARE DESIROUS OF PASSING LIFE IN TRANQUILLITY.

Episode 62 · 9:03

AGAINST THE QUARRELSOME AND FEROCIOUS

Episode 63 · 11:48

AGAINST THOSE WHO LAMENT OVER BEING PITIED

Episode 64 · 3:55

ON FREEDOM FROM FEAR

Episode 65 · 7:07

TO A PERSON WHO HAD BEEN CHANGED TO A CHARACTER OF SHAMELESSNESS

Episode 66 · 1:19

WHAT THINGS WE OUGHT TO DESPISE AND WHAT THINGS WE OUGHT TO VALUE

Episode 67 · 6:06

ABOUT PURITY (CLEANLINESS)

Episode 68 · 6:05

ON ATTENTION

Episode 69 · 5:06

AGAINST OR TO THOSE WHO READILY TELL THEIR OWN AFFAIRS.

Episode 70 · 5:28

THE ENCHEIRIDION: 1 - 10

Episode 71 · 9:39

THE ENCHEIRIDION: 11 - 20

Episode 72 · 7:56

THE ENCHEIRIDION: 21 - 30

Episode 73 · 12:47

THE ENCHEIRIDION: 31 - 40

Episode 74 · 13:49

THE ENCHEIRIDION: 41 - 52

Episode 75 · 12:04

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