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SUBJECT INDEX TO THE DISCOURSES OF EPICTETUS

(The numbers refer to pages)

Admiration, desire for, 261

Adultery, 256, 287

Affection, family, 243 ff.; limits of, 397

Anger, two kinds of, 462

Another, i.e., God, 267, 350, 415

Anxiety, 305 ff.

Appropriate acts, 357, 476

Assent, 272, 364, 466

Attachment to places, 396, 428

Attention, 453 ff.

Authority, 266, 275, 439-440; of the Cynic, 385

 

Babbling, 455

Bazaar, the, of life, 309-310

Beauty, the fulfilment of one's nature, 343

Body, a beast of burden, 413; needs care, 451; body and mind, 229, 380, 465

Books and life, 270, 318

 

Caesar's court, 292; fortune, 407; friends, 409

Character, to be true to one's, 226 ff.

Children, 277, 366, 439

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

Conceit, 316, 367

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.

Conversation, 478, 479

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

Destiny, 337, 385, 418, 483

Difficulties try men, 264

Diffidence, 367

Discontent, 248, 458

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

Fear, 266, 305, 437

Festival, life a, 416

Flattery, 394, 395

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

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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

God's will, 415, 426, 448

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,

352, 354, 360, 362, 429

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

Introductions, 315, 319

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

Masters, 279, 306, 411

Mastery, 417

Material things, wrongly valued, 256, 288

Messenger, the, within, 382

Moral judgements need training, 270

Mysteries, 375, 416

 

Names suggest conduct, 298 ff.

Natural, 289-290

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

Passion, 320; tyranny of, 407

Patron of Cnossus, 359

Peace of mind, 282, 366, 409, 425; Diogenes, 264; Socrates, 268

Pentathlon, 343, 386, 476

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

Piety, 476-477

Pity, 433

Pleasure, 463

Power, responsibility and, 249; things in our, 468

Practice, value of, 257, 312

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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

 

Rank, 367-368

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-advancement, 242-243

Self-control, 249

Self-respect, 445-446, 473-474

Self-sufficiency, 365

Shows and spectacles, 227

Signal, the, to retire, 241, 366, 398, 404

Simple life, 403, 481

Slavery, 406 ff., 420

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

Superiority, 367-368, 481

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

Training, 226, 363 ff., 463

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

War, origin of, 332-333

Will, training of the, 226, 358, 415; not to be sold cheap, 228

Witness to God, 278, 399-400

World, the tumult of the, 427-428

 

Zeus sees all, 363