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Index
Cover
Title Page
About the Author and Editor
Praise
Dedication
Introduction
Note on the Text
The Annotations
Note on the Translation
Explanation of the Symbols
Chronology
THE ESSAYS: A SELECTION
To the Reader
BOOK I
1. We reach the same end by discrepant means
8. On idleness
16. On punishing cowardice
18. On fear
20. To philosophize is to learn how to die
26. On educating children
27. That it is madness to judge the true and the false from our own capacities
31. On the Cannibals
32. Judgements on God’s ordinances must be embarked upon with prudence
39. On solitude
56. On prayer
57. On the length of life
BOOK II
1. On the inconstancy of our actions
2. On drunkenness
5. On conscience
8. On the affection of fathers for their children
11. On cruelty
32. In defence of Seneca and Plutarch
35. On three good wives
37. On the resemblance of children to their fathers
BOOK III
2. On repenting
3. On three kinds of social intercourse
5. On some lines of Virgil
6. On coaches
11. On the lame
13. On experience
Index
Summary of the Symbols
Copyright
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