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BOOK 1 |
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| 1 | Of the things which are in our Power, and not in our Power |
| 2 | How a Man on every occasion can maintain his Proper Character |
| 3 | How a man should proceed from the principle of God being the father of all men to the rest |
| 4 | Of progress or improvement |
| 5 | Against the academics |
| 6 | Of providence |
| 7 | Of the use of sophistical arguments, and hypothetical, and the like |
| 8 | That the faculties are not safe to the uninstructed |
| 9 | How from the fact that we are akin to God a man may proceed to the consequences |
| 10 | Against those who eagerly seek preferment at Rome |
| 11 | Of natural affection |
| 12 | Of contentment |
| 13 | How everything may he done acceptably to the gods |
| 14 | That the deity oversees all things |
| 15 | What philosophy promises |
| 16 | Of providence |
| 17 | That the logical art is necessary |
| 18 | That we ought not to he angry with the errors of others |
| 19 | How we should behave to tyrants |
| 20 | About reason, how it contemplates itself |
| 21 | Against those who wish to be admired |
| 22 | On precognitions |
| 23 | Against Epicurus |
| 24 | How we should struggle with circumstances |
| 25 | On the same |
| 26 | What is the law of life |
| 27 | In how many ways appearances exist, and what aids we should provide against them |
| 28 | That we ought not to he angry with men; and what are the small and the great things among men |
| 29 | On constancy |
| 30 | What we ought to have ready in difficult circumstances |
BOOK 2 |
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| 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 fulfill that which the character of a man promises, we assume the character of a philosopher |
| 10 | How we may discover the duties of life from names |
| 11 | What the beginning of philosophy is |
| 12 | Of disputation or discussion |
| 13 | On anxiety |
| 14 | To Naso |
| 15 | To or against 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 | On friendship |
| 23 | On the power of speaking |
| 24 | To a person who was one of those who was not valued by him |
| 25 | That logic is necessary |
| 26 | What is the property of error |
BOOK 3 |
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| 1 | Of finery in dress |
| 2 | In what a man ought to be exercised who has made proficiency; and that we neglect the chief things |
| 3 | What is the matter on which a good man should he employed, and in what we ought chiefly to practice ourselves |
| 4 | Against a person who showed his partisanship in an unseemly way 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 certain rhetorician who was 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 |
| 15 | That we ought to proceed with circumspection to everything |
| 16 | That we ought with caution to enter, into familiar intercourse with men |
| 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 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 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 from their purpose |
| 26 | To those who fear want |
BOOK 4 |
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| 1 | About freedom |
| 2 | On familiar intimacy |
| 3 | What things we should exchange for other things |
| 4 | To those who are desirous of passing life in tranquility |
| 5 | Against the quarrelsome and ferocious |
| 6 | Against those who lament over being pitied |
| 7 | On freedom from fear |
| 8 | Against those who hastily rush into the use of the philosophic dress |
| 9 | To a person who had been changed to a character of shamelessness |
| 10 | What things we ought to despise, and what things we ought to value |
| 11 | About Purity |
| 12 | On attention |
| 13 | Against or to those who readily tell their own affairs |
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