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Discourses III

Epictetus

Freedom Through Acceptance

The third volume of Epictetus's full teachings. Distinguishing between what we can and cannot control in human experience.

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26 chapters

  1. Of finery in dress.

  2. In what a man ought to be exercised who has made

  3. What is the matter on which a good man should be

  4. Against a person who showed his partizanship in an

  5. Against those who on account of sickness go away

  6. Miscellaneous.

  7. To the administrator of the free cities who was an

  8. How we must exercise ourselves against appearances

  9. To a certain rhetorician who was going up to Rome on

  10. In what manner we ought to bear sickness.

  11. Certain miscellaneous matters

  12. About exercise.

  13. What solitude is, and what kind of person a solitary

  14. Certain miscellaneous matters.

  15. That we ought to proceed with circumspection to

  16. That we ought with caution to enter into familiar

  17. On Providence.

  18. That we ought not to be disturbed by any news.

  19. What is the condition of a common kind of man and of

  20. That we can derive advantage from all external things.

  21. Against those who readily come to the profession of

  22. About Cynicism

  23. To those who read and discuss for the sake of ostentation.

  24. That we ought not to be moved by a desire of those things which are not in our power.

  25. To those who fall off (desist) from their purpose.

  26. To those who fear want.