Discourses: Book 3

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by Epictetus

Table Of Content

1: Of personal adornment 2: The fields of study in which the man who expects to make progress will have to go into training; and that we neglect what is most important 3: What is the subject-matter with which the good man has to deal; and what should he the chief object of our training?4: To the man who look sides, in an undignified manner, while in a theatre 5: To those who leave school because of illness 6: Some scattered sayings 7: A conversation with the Imperial Bailiff of the Free Cities, who was an Epicurean 8: How ought we to exercise ourselves to deal with the impressions of our senses?9: To a certain rhetorician who was going to Rome for a lawsuit 10: How ought we to bear our illnesses?11: Some scattered sayings 12: Of training 13: The meaning of a forlorn state, and the kind of person a forlorn man is 14: Some scattered sayings 15: That we ought to approach each separate thing with circumspection 16: That one should enter cautiously into social intercourse 17: Of Providence 18: That we ought not to allow any news to disturb us 19: What is the position of the layman, and what that of the philosopher?20: That it is possible to derive advantage from everything external 21: To those who enter light-heartedly upon the profession of lecturing 22: On the calling of a Cynic 23: To those who read and discuss for the purpose of display 24: That we ought not to yearn for the things which are not under our control 25: To those who fail to achieve their purposes 26: To those who fear want

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