In What a Proficient Ought to Be Exercised, and That We Neglect the Principal Things

 

III. What Is the Subject-Matter of a Good Man, and in What We Chiefly Ought to Be Practitioners

 

IV. Concerning One Who Exerted Himself, With Indecent Eagerness, in the Theatre

 

V. Concerning Those Who Pretend Sickness as an Excuse to Return Home

 

VI. Miscellaneous

 

VII. Concerning a Governor of the Free States, Who Was an Epicurean

 

VIII. How We Are to Exercise Ourselves against the Appearances of Things

 

IX. Concerning a Certain Orator Who Was Going to Rome on a Law-suit

 

X. In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness

 

XI. Miscellaneous

 

XII. Of Ascetic Exercise

 

XIII. What Solitude Is, and What a Solitary Person

 

XIV. Miscellaneous

 

XV. That Everything Is to Be Undertaken With Circumspection

 

XVI. That Caution Is Necessary in Condescension and Complaisance

 

XVII. Of Providence

 

XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Alarmed by Any News That Is Brought Us

 

XIX. What Is the Condition of the Vulgar, and What of a Philosopher

 

XX. That Some Advantage May Be Gained from Every External Circumstance

 

XXI. Concerning Those Who Readily Set Up for Sophists

 

XXII. Of the Cynic Philosophy

 

XXIII. Concerning Such as Read and Dispute Ostentatiously

 

XXIV. That We Ought Not to Be Affected by Things Not in Our Own Power

 

XXV. Concerning Those Who Desist from Their Purpose

 

XXVI. Concerning Those Who Are in Dread of Want

 

 

Book IV

I. Of Freedom

 

II. Of Complaisance

 

III. What Things Are to Be Exchanged for Others

 

IV. Concerning Those Who Earnestly Desire a Life of Repose

 

V. Concerning the Quarrelsome and Ferocious

 

VI.