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Discourses, Book III

Epictetus

The book of exercises: how to train against impressions, bear illness and solitude, and the famous portrait of the true Cynic (III.22) as Zeus' messenger. Chapters (26): 1. Of finery in dress; 2. In what a man who has made proficiency ought to be exercised; 3. What is the matter on which a good man should be employed; 4. Against a person who showed his partisanship in a theatre; 5. Against those who on account of sickness go away home; 6. Miscellaneous; 7. To the administrator of the free cities who was an Epicurean; 8. How we must exercise ourselves against appearances; 9. To a rhetorician going up to Rome on a suit; 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 man is; 14. Certain miscellaneous matters (II); 15. That we ought to proceed with circumspection to everything; 16. That we ought with caution to enter into familiar intercourse with men; 17. Of providence; 18. That we ought not to be disturbed by any news; 19. The condition of a common man and of a philosopher; 20. That we can derive advantage from all external things; 21. Against those who readily come to the profession of sophists; 22. About Cynism; 23. To those who read and discuss for the sake of ostentation; 24. That we ought not to be moved by a desire of things not in our power; 25. To those who desist from their purpose; 26. To those who fear want.