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CONTENTS.
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| XXIV. | How we should struggle with Circumstances | 70 |
| XXV. | On the same | 73 |
| XXVI. | What is the Law of Life | 77 |
| XXVII. | In how many ways Appearances exist, and what Aids we should provide against them | 80 |
| XXVIII. | That we ought not to be Angry with Men; and what are the Small and the Great Things among Men | 83 |
| XXIX. | On Constancy (or Firmness) | 87 |
| XXX. | What we ought to have ready in Difficult Circumstances | 96 |
| BOOK II. | ||
| I. | That Confidence (Courage) is not inconsistent with Caution | 97 |
| II. | Of Tranquillity (Freedom from Perturbation) | 103 |
| III. | To those who recommend Persons to Philosophers | 106 |
| IV. | Against a Person who had once been detected in Adultery | 107 |
| V. | How Magnanimity is consistent with Care | 108 |
| VI. | Of Indifference | 112 |
| VII. | How we ought to use Divination | 116 |
| VIII. | What is the Nature (ἡ οὐσία) of the Good | 118 |
| IX. | That when we cannot fulfil that which the Character of a Man promises, we assume the Character of a Philosopher | 123 |
| X. | How we may discover the Duties of Life from Names | 127 |
| XI. | What the Beginning of Philosophy is | 130 |
| XII. | Of Disputation or Discussion | 133 |
| XIII. | Of Anxiety (Solicitude) | 136 |
| XIV. | To Naso | 140 |
| XV. | To or against those who obstinately Persist in what they have determined | 144 |
| XVI. | That we do not strive to use our Opinions about Good and Evil | 147 |
| XVII. | How we must adapt Preconceptions to particular Cases | 153 |
| XVIII. | How we should struggle against Appearances | 158 |
| XIX. | Against those who embrace Philosophical Opinions only in Words | 162 |
| XX. | Against the Epicureans and Academics | 167 |
