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A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion

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.

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