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The Complete Works Volume 3, Essays and Miscellanies
By Plutarch

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CONTENTS

PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
THAT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO LIVE PLEASURABLY
ACCORDING TO THE DOCTRINE OF EPICURUS
THAT A PHILOSOPHER OUGHT CHIEFLY TO CONVERSE
WITH GREAT MEN
SENTIMENTS CONCERNING NATURE, WITH WHICH
PHILOSOPHERS WERE DELIGHTED
ABSTRACT OF A DISCOURSE SHOWING THAT THE STOICS
SPEAK GREATER IMPROBABILITIES THAN THE POETS
SYMPOSIACS
COMMON CONCEPTIONS AGAINST THE STOICS
CONTRADICTIONS OF THE STOICS
THE EATING OF FLESH
CONCERNING FATE
AGAINST COLOTES, THE DISCIPLE AND FAVORITE OF
EPICURUS
PLATONIC QUESTIONS

LITERARY ESSAYS
THE LIFE AND POETRY OF HOMER
THE BANQUET OF THE SEVEN WISE MEN
HOW A YOUNG MAN OUGHT TO HEAR POEMS
ABSTRACT OF A COMPARISON BETWEEN ARISTOPHANES
AND MENANDER
THE MALICE OF HERODOTUS

PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
THAT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO LIVE PLEASURABLY
ACCORDING TO THE DOCTRINE OF EPICURUS.
PLUTARCH, ZEUXIPPUS, THEON, ARISTODEMUS.
Epicurus's great confidant and familiar, Colotes, set forth a book with
this title to it, that according to the tenets of the other philosophers it is
impossible to live. Now what occurred to me then to say against him, in
the defence of those philosophers, hath been already put into writing by
me. But since upon breaking up of our lecture several things have
happened to be spoken afterwards in the walks in further opposition to
his party, I thought it not amiss to recollect them also, if for no other
reason, yet for this one, that those who will needs be contradicting
other men may see that they ought not to run cursorily over the
discourses and writings of those they would disprove, nor by tearing
out one word here and another there, or by falling foul upon particular
passages without the books, to impose upon the ignorant and unlearned.
Now as we were leaving the school to take a walk (as