The Discourses of Epictetus
Table of Contents
BOOK ONE
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
BOOK TWO
Chapter 1
Confidence then ought to be employed against death, and caution against the fear of death. But now we do the contrary, and employ against death the at
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Such will I show myself to you, faithful, modest, noble, free from perturbation. What, and immortal too, exempt from old age, and from sickness? No,
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Well then the matter is not now very safe, and particularly at Rome for he who attempts to do it, must not do it in a corner, you may be sure, but m
Chapter 13
For this reason when Zeno was going to meet Antigonus, he was not anxious, for Antigonus had no power over any of the things which Zeno admired and Z
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
See how tragedy is made when common things happen to silly men.
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Of things some are good, some are bad, and others are indifferent. The good then are the virtues and the things which partake of the virtues the bad
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Do you think that Admetus did not love his own child when he was little? that he was not in agony when the child had a fever? that he did not often sa
Such are the wishes that they utter.
Chapter 23
Then having this purpose before you, if some little form of expression pleases you, if some theorems please you, do you abide among them and choose t
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
BOOK THREE
Chapter 1
Was Hermes going to descend from heaven to say this to him? And now the Gods say this to you and send the messenger, the slayer of Argus, to warn you
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
And we ought to retain these verses in such way that we may use them, not that we may utter them aloud, as when we exclaim Paean Apollo. Again in fe
Chapter 11
This, then, may be applied even to a father: I must not, even if a worse man than you should come, treat a father unworthily-, for all are from pater
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
And what does he say himself?
Wretch, which of your affairs goes badly? Your possessions? No. Your body? No. But you are rich in gold and copper. What then is the matter with you?
whose duty it is to look after others, the married and those who have children to see who uses his wife well, who uses her badly who quarrels what
he answered, when he was half-asleep,
But before all the Cynic's ruling faculty must be purer than the sun and, if it is not, he must be a cunning knave and a fellow of no principle, sinc
and also, If so it pleases the gods, so let it be why should he not have confidence to speak freely to his own brothers, to his children, in a word
So he was conscious of his own qualification, and knew her weakness.
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
And still earlier it was the fortune of Hercules to visit all the inhabited world
casting out and clearing away their lawlessness and introducing in their place good rules of law. And yet how many friends do you think that he had in
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Relying on what? Not on reputation nor on wealth nor on the power of a magistrate, but on his own strength, that is, on his opinions about the things
BOOK FOUR
Chapter 1
But what do you say, philosopher? The tyrant summons you to say something which does not become you. Do you say it or do you not? Answer me. Let me c
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Is it your will that I should go to Rome? I will go to Rome. To Gyara? I will go to Gyara. I will go to Athens? I will go to Athens. To prison? I will
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
he transfers to these things. Where have I failed in the matters pertaining to flattery? What have I done? Anything like a free man, anything like
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
And not this only, but he neither desires nor seeks anything, nor man nor place nor amusement, as children seek the vintage or holidays always fortif
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Why is this your ill? Do you, then, instead of removing it, blame your mother for not foretelling it to you that you might continue grieving from that
Chapter 11
For Aristophanes says of Socrates that he also walked the air and stole clothes from the palaestra. But all who have written about Socrates bear exact
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
