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BOOK I

XV.	What does philosophy profess?
XVI.	Of providence.
XVII.	That the art of reasoning is indispensable.
XVIII.	That we ought not to be angry with the erring.
XIX.	How ought we to bear ourselves towards tyrants?
XX.	How does the reasoning faculty contemplate itself?
XXI.	To those who would be admired.
XXII.	Of preconceptions.
XXIII.	In answer to Epicurus.
XXIV.	How should we struggle against difficulties?
XXV.	Upon the same theme.
XXVI.	What is the rule of life?
XXVII.	In how many ways do the external impressions arise, and what aids should we have ready at hand to meet them?
XXVIII.	That we ought not to be angry with men; and what are the little things and the great among men?
XXIX.	Of steadfastness.
XXX.	What aid ought we have at hand in difficulties?

Arrian to Lucius Gellius, greeting:

I have not composed these Words of Epictetus as one might be said to "compose" books of this kind, nor have I of my own act published them to the world; indeed, I acknowledge that I have not "composed" them at all.^[1] But whatever I heard him say I used to write down, word for word, as best I could, endeavouring to preserve it as a memorial, for my own future use, of his way of thinking and the frankness of his speech. They are, accordingly, as you might expect, such remarks as one man might make off-hand to another, not such as he would compose for men to read in after time. This being their character, they have fallen, I know not how, without my will or knowledge, into the hands

1. The contrast intended is between γράφω, "write," § 2, and συγγράφω, "compose." Arrian had in mind, no doubt, the works of Plato and Xenophon, which, although they purported to reproduce the words of Socrates, were in fact highly finished literary compositions.

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