Introduction / Margaret Graver and A.A. Long -- Taking charge of your time -- A beneficial reading program -- Trusting one's friends -- Intimacy within friendship -- Avoiding the crowd -- Writing as a form of service -- Friendship and self-sufficiency -- Blushing -- Visiting a childhood home -- Safety in a dangerous world -- Exercises for the body and the voice -- Daily study and practice -- The Saturnalia festival -- Consistency -- How reading can make you famous -- Real joy is a serious matter -- An Epicurean on his deathbed -- Our mind's godlike potential -- The use of philosophical maxims -- Fewer words achieve more -- Oratory and the philosopher -- God dwells within us -- A book by Lucilius -- The evils of slavery -- Remembering old times -- A bad experience at sea --
A near-fatal asthma attack
Noisy lodgings above a bathhouse
A conversation about Plato
Consolation for the death of a friend
Some analyses of causation
What it means to make progress
Only the honorable is good
A trip around Sicily brings thoughts of glory
The rustic villa of Scipio Africanus
The beginnings of civilization
A trial in the time of Cicero
Why travel cannot set you free
Vegetarianism and the use of literature
Is virtue an animate creature?
The Stoic view of emotion
Self-awareness in animate creatures
Resisting external influences
The criterion for the human good.
