वाचनालय

Discourses, Book II

Epictetus

On tranquillity, the indifference of external things, divination, the nature of the good, friendship and the practical use of preconceptions, with polemics against Epicureans and Academics. Chapters (26): 1. That confidence is not inconsistent with caution; 2. Of tranquillity; 3. To those who recommend persons to philosophers; 4. Against a person who had once been detected in adultery; 5. How magnanimity is consistent with care; 6. Of indifference; 7. How we ought to use divination; 8. What is the nature of the good; 9. That when we cannot fulfil the character of a man we assume that of a philosopher; 10. How we may discover the duties of life from names; 11. What the beginning of philosophy is; 12. Of disputation; 13. Of anxiety; 14. To Naso; 15. To those who obstinately persist in what they have determined; 16. That we do not strive to use our opinions about good and evil; 17. How we must adapt preconceptions to particular cases; 18. How we should struggle against appearances; 19. Against those who embrace philosophical opinions only in words; 20. Against the Epicureans and Academics; 21. Of inconsistency; 22. Of friendship; 23. On the power of speaking; 24. To a person who was not esteemed by him; 25. That logic is necessary; 26. What is the property of error.