Philosophical discourses of Epictetus as recorded by his affectionate student, Arrian. One main precept expounded is that we do not fear events but rather our thoughts about those events. (Summary by the reader)
Chapters
1 Introduction and Preface 15 min 2 Book I I. Of the Things Which Are in Our Power, and Not in Our Power 9 min 3 II. How a Man on Every Occasion Can Maintain His Proper Character 9 min 4 III. How a Man Should Proceed from the Principles of God Being the Father of All Men to the Rest 3 min 5 IV. Of Progress or Improvement 9 min 6 V. Against the Academics 3 min 7 VI. Of Providence 11 min 8 VII. Of the Use of Sophistical Arguments and Hypothetical and the Like 9 min 9 VIII. That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed 4 min 10 IX. How from the Fact That We Are Akin to God a Man May Proceed to the Consequences 10 min 11 X. Against Those Who Eagerly Seek Preferment at Rome 4 min 12 XI. Of Natural Affection 11 min 13 XII. Of Contentment 9 min 14 XIII. How Everything May Be Done Acceptably to the Gods 2 min 15 XIV. That the Deity Oversees All Things 5 min 16 XV. What Philosophy Promises 3 min 17 XVI. Of Providence 5 min 18 XVII. That the Logical Art is Necessary 8 min 19 XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with the Errors (Faults) of Others 7 min 20 XIX. How We Should Behave to Tyrants 8 min 21 XX. About Reason, How I Contemplates Itself 5 min 22 XXI. Against Those Who Wish to Be Admired 1 min 23 XXII. On Precognition 6 min 24 XXIII. Against Epicurus 2 min 25 XXIV. How We Should Struggle with Circumstances 5 min 26 XXV. On the Same 8 min 27 XXVI. What is the Law of Life 5 min 28 XXVII. In How Many Ways Appearances Exist, and What Aids We Should Provide Against Them 6 min 29 XXVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with Men; and What are the Small and the Great Things Among Men 9 min 30 XXIX. On Constancy (Or Firmness) 18 min 31 XXX. What We Ought to Have Ready in Difficult Circumstances 2 min 32 Book II I. That Confidence (Courage) is Not Inconsistent with Caution 12 min 33 II. Of Tranquility (Freedom from Perturbation) 6 min 34 III. To Those Who Recommend Persons to Philosophers 2 min 35 IV. Against a Person Who Had Once Been Detected in Adultery 4 min 36 V. How Magnanimity Is Consistent with Care 9 min 37 VI. Of Indifference 7 min 38 VII. How We Ought to Use Divination 4 min 39 VIII. What Is the Nature ('H Ουσία) Of the Good 9 min 40 IX. That When We Cannot Fulfil That Which the Character of a Man Promises, We Assume the Character of a Philosopher 7 min 41 X. How We May Discover the Duties of Life from Names 9 min 42 XI. What the Beginning of Philosophy Is 7 min 43 XII. Of Disputation or Discussion 7 min 44 XIII. On Anxiety (Solicitude) 8 min 45 XIV. To Naso 9 min 46 XV. To or Against Those Who Obstinately Persist in What They Have Determined 6 min 47 XVI. That We Do Not Strive to Use Our Opinions About Good and Evil 15 min 48 XVII. How We Must Adapt Preconceptions to Particular Cases 12 min 49 XVIII. How We Should Struggle Against Appearances 8 min 50 XIX. Against Those Who Embrace Philosophical Opinions Only in Words 11 min 51 XX. Against the Epicureans and the Academics 13 min 52 XXI. Of Inconsistency 7 min 53 XXII. On Friendship 13 min 54 XXIII. On the Power of Speaking 15 min 55 XXIV. To (Or Against) a Person Who Was One of Those Who Were Not Valued (Esteemed by Him) 9 min 56 XXV. That Logic is Necessary 1 min 57 XXVI. What Is the Property of Error 3 min 58 Book III I. Of Finery in Dress 14 min 59 II. In What a Man Ought to Be Exercised Who Has Made Proficiency and That We Neglect the Chief Things 7 min 60 III. What Is the Matter on Which a Good Man Should be Employed, and in What We Ought Chiefly to Practice Ourselves 7 min 61 IV. Against a Person Who Showed His Partisanship in an Unseemly Way in a Theatre 4 min 62 V. Against Those Who on Account of Sickness Go Away Home 6 min 63 VI. Miscellaneous 3 min 64 VII. To the Administrator of the Free Cities Who Was an Epicurean 11 min 65 VIII. How We Must Exercise Ourselves Against Appearances (Φαντασίασ) 3 min 66 IX. To A Certain Rhetorician Who Was Going Up to Rome on a Suit 7 min 67 X. In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness 7 min 68 XI. Certain Misceallaneous Matters 2 min 69 XII. About Exercise 6 min 70 XIII. What Solitude Is, and What Kind of Person a Solitary Man Is 8 min 71 XIV. Certain Miscellaneous Matters 3 min 72 XV. That We Ought to Proceed with Circumspection to Everything 5 min 73 XVI. That We Ought with Caution to Enter into Familiar Intercourse with Men 5 min 74 XVII. On Providence 3 min 75 XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Disturbed by Any News 3 min 76 XIX. What is the Condition of a Common Kind of Man and of a Philosopher 2 min 77 XX. That We Can Derive Advantage from All External Things 6 min 78 XXI. Against Those Who Readily Come to the Profession of Sophists 7 min 79 XXII. About Cynism 33 min 80 XXIII. To Those Who Read and Discuss for the Sake of Ostentation 13 min 81 XXIV. That We Ought Not to Be Moved by a Desire of Those Things Which Are Not in Our Power 39 min 82 XXV. To Those Who Fall Off (Desist) from Their Purpose 4 min 83 XXVI. To Those Who Fear Want 13 min 84 Book IV I. About Freedom 59 min 85 II. On Familiar Intimacy 4 min 86 III. What Things We Should Exchange for Other Things 4 min 87 IV. To Those Who Are Desirous of Passing Life in Tranquility 18 min 88 V. Against the Quarrelsome and Ferocious 13 min 89 VI. Against Those Who Lament Over Being Pitied 14 min 90 VII. On Freedom From Fear 15 min 91 VIII. Against Those Who Hastily Rush Into the Use of the Philosophic Dress 15 min 92 IX. To a Person Who Had Been Changed to a Character of Shamelessness 6 min 93 X. What Things We Ought to Despise, and What Things We Ought to Value 12 min 94 XI. About Purity (Cleanliness) 13 min 95 XII. On Attention 7 min 96 XIII. Against or to Those Who Readily Tell Their Own Affairs 8 min
