The Christianity of Stoicism Author:Flavius Arrianus Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ORDER OF THE SECTIONS, A a they occur in the Discourses of Epictelus. Ssct. I ...B. II. ch. 11. B. I. ch. 17. Ill B. II. ch. 25. IV 8. I. ch.r. ... more » V B, I.ch.7. VI ....B. II. ch. 12. VII B. Ill.ch. 6. Till B. I.ch.3. IX B. I. ch.9. X B. I. ch. 4. XI .....B.fl.eh. 17. XII B. I. ch. 22. XIH..,.,.,...B. II. ch. 16. XIV B. I. ch.24. XV B.I.ch.12. XVI B. I. ch. 13. XVII B. I. ch. 14. XVIII B. II. ch. 10. XIX B.I.ch.2. , XX B.III.ch. 20. XXI B. III.ch.15. 6. Our unhappiness proceeds from our anxiety to avoid things not in our own power. 7. Our aversions should be confined to things in our own power. Young beginners in philosophy should proceed, in their mental disci- pline, gently and gradually. 8. The nature of what we love, is a material and necessary consideration. 9. The circumstances and probable consequences of every undertaking should be well weighed before we undertake it. 10. Our disquietudes are owing not to the things themselves, but to our ideas of them.—Wise men make no complaints. 11. Men ought not to value themselves upon the goods of fortune, but those of the mind. The right use and improvement of our ideas of things is our proper business and virtue. 12. We ought always to be so prepared to obey the calls iu Providence, as not to be hindered by any worldly considerations. VIII. . 1 3. We should not trouble ourselves with wishing that things may be just as we would have them. 13. A well-disciplined mind is subject to no obstructions. On Self-government, and tranquillity of mind, in our intercourse with the world. , ' : 14. The powers of the mind must be opposed against all accidents and vicious desires. 15. What we part with, is not lost, but restored to God,...« less