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Chapter 1 — How We Reach the Same Destination by Different Paths
Chapter 2 — On Sorrow
Chapter 3 — That Our Affections Reach Beyond Us
Chapter 4 — That the Soul Expends Its Passions Upon False Objects, Where the True Are Wanting
Chapter 5 — Whether the Governor of a Place Besieged Ought Himself to Go Out to Parley
Chapter 6 — That the Hour of Parley Is Dangerous
Chapter 7 — That Intention Is the Judge of Our Actions
Chapter 8 — On Idleness
Chapter 9 — Of Liars
Chapter 10 — On Quick or Slow Speech
Chapter 11 — On Prophecies
Chapter 12 — On Constancy
Chapter 13 — The Ceremony of Meetings Between Princes
Chapter 14 — That Men Are Justly Punished for Stubbornly Defending a Fort That Cannot Reasonably Be Defended
Chapter 15 — On the Punishment of Cowardice
Chapter 16 — On the Conduct of Certain Ambassadors
Chapter 17 — On Fear
Chapter 18 — That We Should Not Judge Our Happiness Until After Death.
Chapter 19 — To Study Philosophy Is to Learn to Die
Chapter 20 — On the Power of Imagination
Chapter 21 — One Man's Profit Is Another's Loss
Chapter 22 — On Custom, and Why We Should Not Lightly Change an Established Law
Chapter 23 — Various Outcomes from the Same Strategy
Chapter 24 — On Pedantry
Chapter 25 — On the Education of Children
Chapter 26 — It Is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity
Chapter 27 — On Friendship
Chapter 28 — Twenty-Nine Sonnets of Estienne De La Boitie
Chapter 29 — On Moderation
Chapter 30 — On Cannibals
Chapter 31 — That We Should Judge Divine Ordinances Soberly
Chapter 32 — We Must Avoid Pleasure, Even at the Expense of Life
Chapter 33 — That Fortune Is Often Observed to Act According to Reason
Chapter 34 — On a Defect in Our Government
Chapter 35 — On the Custom of Wearing Clothes
Chapter 36 — On Cato the Younger
Chapter 37 — How We Laugh and Cry at the Same Thing
Chapter 38 — On Solitude
Chapter 39 — A Consideration of Cicero
Chapter 40 — That the Taste of Good and Evil Depends in Large Part on the Opinion We Have of Them
Chapter 41 — On Not Sharing One’s Honor
Chapter 42 — On the Inequality Among Us.
Chapter 43 — On Sumptuary Laws
Chapter 44 — On Sleep
Chapter 45 — On the Battle of Dreux
Chapter 46 — On Names
Chapter 47 — On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment
Chapter 48 — On War Horses
Chapter 49 — On Ancient Customs
Chapter 50 — On Democritus and Heraclitus
Chapter 51 — On the Vanity of Words
Chapter 52 — On the Frugality of the Ancients
Chapter 53 — On a Saying of Caesar
Chapter 54 — On Futile Subtleties
Chapter 55 — On Smells
Chapter 56 — On Prayer
Chapter 57 — On Age