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The Enchiridion

Epictetus

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The little book by Epictetus called _Enchiridion_ or “manual” has played a disproportionately large role in the rise of modern attitudes and modern philosophy. As soon as it had been translated into the vernacular languages, it became a bestseller among independent intellectuals, among anti-Christian thinkers, and among philosophers of a subjective cast. Montaigne had a copy of the _Enchiridion_ among his books. Pasc…

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  • AuthorEpictetus
  • SourceProject Gutenberg #45109
  • Length11,015 words · 44 min of reading
  • Chapters52
  • DictionaryIncluded
  • CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
  • Source checked2026-08-21

Contents

52 chapters

Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.

  1. 01NOTE ON THE TEXT
  2. 02INTRODUCTION
  3. 03ALBERT SALOMON
  4. 04SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  5. 05II
  6. 06III
  7. 07IV
  8. 08VI
  9. 09VII
  10. 10VIII
  11. 11IX
  12. 12XI
  13. 13XII
  14. 14XIII
  15. 15XIV
  16. 16XV
  17. 17XVI
  18. 18XVII
  19. 19XVIII
  20. 20XIX
  21. 21XX
  22. 22XXI
  23. 23XXII
  24. 24XXIII
  25. 25XXIV
  26. 26XXV
  27. 27XXVI
  28. 28XXVII
  29. 29XXVIII
  30. 30XXIX[2
  31. 31XXX
  32. 32XXXI
  33. 33XXXII
  34. 34XXXIII
  35. 35XXXIV
  36. 36XXXV
  37. 37XXXVI
  38. 38XXXVII
  39. 39XXXVIII
  40. 40XXXIX
  41. 41XL
  42. 42XLI
  43. 43XLII
  44. 44XLIII
  45. 45XLIV
  46. 46XLV
  47. 47XLVI
  48. 48XLVII
  49. 49XLVIII
  50. 50XLIX
  51. 51LI
  52. 52Footnotes

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