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Of the things which are in our Power, and not
in our Power |
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How a Man on every occasion can maintain his
Proper Character |
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How a man should proceed from the principle of
God being the father of all men to the rest |
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Of progress or improvement |
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Against the academics |
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Of providence |
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Of the use of sophistical arguments, and
hypothetical, and the like |
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That the faculties are not safe to the
uninstructed |
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How from the fact that we are akin to God a
man may proceed to the consequences |
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Against those who eagerly seek preferment at
Rome |
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Of natural affection |
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Of contentment |
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How everything may he done acceptably to the
gods |
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That the deity oversees all things |
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What philosophy promises |
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Of providence |
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That the logical art is necessary |
| 18 |
That we ought not to he angry with the errors
of others |
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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 |
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How we should struggle with
circumstances |
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On the same |
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What is the law of life |
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In how many ways appearances exist, and what
aids we should provide against them |
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That we ought not to he angry with men; and
what are the small and the great things among men |
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On constancy |
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What we ought to have ready in difficult
circumstances |
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That confidence is not inconsistent with
caution |
| 2 |
Of Tranquillity |
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To those who recommend persons to
philosophers |
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Against a person who had once been detected in
adultery |
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How magnanimity is consistent with
care |
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Of indifference |
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How we ought to use divination |
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What is the nature of the good |
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That when we cannot fulfill that which the
character of a man promises, we assume the character of a philosopher |
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How we may discover the duties of life from
names |
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What the beginning of philosophy is |
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Of disputation or discussion |
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On anxiety |
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To Naso |
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To or against those who obstinately persist in
what they have determined |
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That we do not strive to use our opinions
about good and evil |
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How we must adapt preconceptions to particular
cases |
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How we should struggle against
appearances |
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Against those who embrace, philosophical
opinions only in words |
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Against the Epicureans and Academics |
| 21 |
Of inconsistency |
| 22 |
On friendship |
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On the power of speaking |
| 24 |
To a person who was one of those who was not
valued by him |
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That logic is necessary |
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What is the property of error |
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Of finery in dress |
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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 |
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Against a person who showed his partisanship
in an unseemly way in a theatre |
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Against those who on account of sickness go
away home |
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Miscellaneous |
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To the administrator of the free cities who
was an Epicurean |
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How we must exercise ourselves against
appearances |
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To a certain rhetorician who was going up to
Rome on a suit |
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In what manner we ought to bear
sickness |
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Certain miscellaneous matters |
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About exercise |
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What solitude is, and what kind of person a
solitary man is |
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Certain miscellaneous matters |
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That we ought to proceed with circumspection
to everything |
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That we ought with caution to enter, into
familiar intercourse with men |
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On providence |
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That we ought not to be disturbed by any
news |
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What is the condition of a common kind of man
and of a philosopher |
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That we can derive advantage from all external
things |
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Against those who readily come to the
profession of sophists |
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About cynicism |
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To those who read and discuss for the sake of
ostentation |
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That we ought not to be moved by a desire of
those things which are not in our power |
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To those who fall off from their
purpose |
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To those who fear want |
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About freedom |
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On familiar intimacy |
| 3 |
What things we should exchange for other
things |
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To those who are desirous of passing life in
tranquility |
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Against the quarrelsome and ferocious |
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Against those who lament over being
pitied |
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On freedom from fear |
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Against those who hastily rush into the use of
the philosophic dress |
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To a person who had been changed to a
character of shamelessness |
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What things we ought to despise, and what
things we ought to value |
| 11 |
About Purity |
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On attention |
| 13 |
Against or to those who readily tell their own
affairs |