All Episodes

Book IV I. About Freedom

II. On Familiar Intimacy

III. What Things We Should Exchange for Other Things

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

V. Against the Quarrelsome and Ferocious

VI. Against Those Who Lament Over Being Pitied

VII. On Freedom From Fear

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

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

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

XI. About Purity (Cleanliness)

XII. On Attention

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

XIII. How Everything May Be Done Acceptably to the Gods

XIV. That the Deity Oversees All Things

XV. What Philosophy Promises

XVI. Of Providence

XVII. That the Logical Art is Necessary

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

XIX. How We Should Behave to Tyrants

XX. About Reason, How I Contemplates Itself

XXI. Against Those Who Wish to Be Admired

XXII. On Precognition

XXIII. Against Epicurus

XXIV. How We Should Struggle with Circumstances

XXV. On the Same

XXVI. What is the Law of Life

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

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

XXIX. On Constancy (Or Firmness)

XXX. What We Ought to Have Ready in Difficult Circumstances

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

II. Of Tranquility (Freedom from Perturbation)

III. To Those Who Recommend Persons to Philosophers

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

V. How Magnanimity Is Consistent with Care

VI. Of Indifference

VII. How We Ought to Use Divination

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

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

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

XI. What the Beginning of Philosophy Is

XII. Of Disputation or Discussion

XIII. On Anxiety (Solicitude)

XIV. To Naso

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

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

XVII. How We Must Adapt Preconceptions to Particular Cases

XVIII. How We Should Struggle Against Appearances

XIX. Against Those Who Embrace Philosophical Opinions Only in Words

XX. Against the Epicureans and the Academics

XXI. Of Inconsistency

XXII. On Friendship

XXIII. On the Power of Speaking

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

XXV. That Logic is Necessary

XXVI. What Is the Property of Error

Book III I. Of Finery in Dress

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

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

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

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

VI. Miscellaneous

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

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

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

X. In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness

XI. Certain Misceallaneous Matters

XII. About Exercise

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

XIV. Certain Miscellaneous Matters

XV. That We Ought to Proceed with Circumspection to Everything

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

XVII. On Providence

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

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

XX. That We Can Derive Advantage from All External Things

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

XXII. About Cynism

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

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

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

XXVI. To Those Who Fear Want

Introduction and Preface

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

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

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

IV. Of Progress or Improvement

V. Against the Academics

VI. Of Providence

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

VIII. That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed

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

X. Against Those Who Eagerly Seek Preferment at Rome

XI. Of Natural Affection

XII. Of Contentment