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The Discourses of Epictetus, tr. by P.E Matheson, [1916], at sacred-texts.com
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Admiration, desire for, 261
Affection, family, 243 ff.; limits of, 397
Anger, two kinds of, 462
Another, i.e., God, 267, 350, 415
Anxiety, 305 ff.
Attachment to places, 396, 428
Attention, 453 ff.
Authority, 266, 275, 439-440; of the Cynic, 385
Babbling, 455
Beauty, the fulfilment of one's nature, 343
Body, a beast of burden, 413; needs care, 451; body and mind, 229, 380, 465
Caesar's court, 292; fortune, 407; friends, 409
Character, to be true to one's, 226 ff.
Citadel, the inner and the outer, 414
City, the great, 377, 393; the small, 290
Cleanliness, inward and outward, 450 ff.
Community, the, its claims on all, 259
Confidence, based on skill, 307; confidence and caution, 281 ff.
Conflict, 262
Consideration, need for, 368 ff.
Constancy, 275 ff.
Contention, 429 ff.
Contentment, 247 ff.
Craftsman, the, in nature, 233
Crisis, the, shows the value of study, 277; what it demands, 280
Cynic, the, the ideal teacher, 376 ff., 444
Death, 270-271, 281-282, 291, 296, 405, 447-448
Departments of study, 347
Difficulties try men, 264
Diffidence, 367
Discussion, its true nature, 303
Display to be shunned, 367, 386
Diviners, 293
Doctrine and life, 297, 322, 323-324
Door, the open, 241, 266, 267, 282, 358
Educated, the, and the uneducated, 279
Education (see also Teacher), 227, 262, 318
Enfranchisement not freedom, 408, 417
Equality of character, 456
Error, 255-256, 342-342, 454-455
Evil means loss, 299
Examples, great (Socrates and others), 320-321, 395-396, 420-421
Expression and eloquence, 334 ff.
Facing both ways, 423
Faculties maintained by exercise, 297
Festival, life a, 416
Flesh, the, 356 ff.
Forlorn, 365 ff.
Freedom, 247, 396-397, 406 ff., 410, 417, 436, 438
Friendship, 330 ff.; limits of, 382
Game, how to play the, 288-289
Games (public), 234, 368, 395, 478
Genius, man's guardian, 251
Given, what is, 226
Gladiators, 277
God, the Father of men, 229, 239-240, 241, 249; beholds all, 250-251; worthy of praise, 253
Good, conception of, 317; nature of, 294 ff., 379-380; from outward things, 373; in the region of the will, 263, 275, 349
Governing Principle, 252, 260, 270, 284,
Greatness, 274
Growth, gradual and unseen, 252, 444
Habit, to be conquered by habit, 270; confirmed by exercise, 329, 401
Happiness, 400
Helmsman, the, 470
Hymn to God, 253
Impressions, 224, 270, 272-273; apprehensive impressions, 349, 358, 426
Indifferent things, 280, 290 ff., 323
Inward and outward, 285
Judgements, importance of, 243 ff., 255, 258, 314, 348, 361, 387, 429, 431 ff., 469; stubbornness in, 310
Law of life, the, 269 ff.
Lecture-room, the, 329-330, 352, 374, 399, 419
Letters of introduction, 241, 286
'Liar,' the, argument, 318, 320, 330
Life, a spectacle, 234; a soldier's service, 393; a festival, 416; a preparation, 285; a banquet, 471; a play, 472; a bazaar, 309
Listening requires skill, 339
Logical studies, value of, 236 ff., 253 ff.; for whom suited, 348
Loss and gain, 404
Lower animals, lessons from, 264
Man, takes cognizance of himself, 234; a portion of God's being, 250, 295; part of a larger whole, 290, 438; not a beast or a sheep, 298
Manumission, 283
Marriage, 382; in Plato's Republic, Frag. 15, 463
'Master,' the, argument, 321
Mastery, 417
Material things, wrongly valued, 256, 288
Messenger, the, within, 382
Moral judgements need training, 270
Names suggest conduct, 298 ff.
Nature, harmony with, 234; to understand, 254; God's will, 225; the will of Nature, 474
Obedience, limits of, 266; obedience to God, 398, 399
Obstinacy, a sign of weakness, 311
Office wrongly valued, 259
Official career, 448
Officials, Roman, 351, 355; local, 346
One's own and not one's own, 256, 274, 390, 413, 424, 468
Oracles, 477
Outside, the, no test, 441-442
Pancratiast, 343
Patron of Cnossus, 359
Peace of mind, 282, 366, 409, 425; Diogenes, 264; Socrates, 268
Philosopher, the, depends on himself, 240; may learn from worldlings, 242; must assert man's freedom, 255; trains men, 270; profession of, 296; differs from the layman, 279, 372; how to be a, 473; a hard task, 476; should act on his principles, 481; sham philosophers, 442
Philosophy, what it professes, 251-252; beginning of, 300; a slow process, 308; needs care, 369; philosophy and principles, 403
Pity, 433
Pleasure, 463
Power, responsibility and, 249; things in our, 468
Primary conceptions, 261 ff.; how to apply, 316 ff.
Progress, 230 ff., 300, 354, 471, 482
Providence, 233 ff., 252-253, 370-371
Purple, the purple thread, 227, 345
Reading no substitute for character, 231
Reason, 224; man's 'good,' 249; takes cognizance of itself, 260-261
Relations, 350
Rhetorical arguments, their danger, 238; their value secondary, 239
School, life a, 235
Self-control, 249
Self-respect, 445-446, 473-474
Self-sufficiency, 365
Shows and spectacles, 227
Signal, the, to retire, 241, 366, 398, 404
Social life, rules for, 478-479
Society, influence of, 369-370
Sorrow, 392
Standards, 227; necessary, 244; and freedom, 248; in conduct, 274; found by philosophy, 301; of Nature, 326
Strength of mind, false, 232-233
Student, the, 362
Study, necessity of, 246, 260-261, 360, 403; true and false, 269; its limits, 271-272; relation of study to life, 313-314, 362, 374-375, 426, 482.
Suicide, warning against hasty, 241; allowed (the open door), 266; (God's signal), 399
Sun and stars, 315
Sympathy, 472
Teacher and pupil, deadness of, 241; influence each other, 243, 324, 339; the true spirit of the teacher, 329; his duty, 344; his attraction, 388; a benefactor, 232; must be trained, 374375; the Ideal Teacher, 376
Theatre, excitement in, 351-352
Things, tyranny of, 411
Tragedy, due to false values, 231, 274
Traveller, the, in life, 415
Troubles, their origin, 271
Truth, 467
Tyrants, have limited power, 257, 275; tragic figures, 265-266; within us, 414
Uneducated, the, 372
Unhappiness, men's fault, 390
Universe, the, composition of, 458; conflagration of, 365; all things obey, 458-459; the process of, 460; full of friends, 391
Values, true, 422-423, 424, 435
Wand, the, of Hermes, 374
Will, training of the, 226, 358, 415; not to be sold cheap, 228
World, the tumult of the, 427-428
Zeus sees all, 363