For other English-language translations of this work, see Moralia.

Volume I

  • Preface
  • Traditional Order of the Books of the Moralia
  • The Education of Children
  • How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
  • On Listening to Lectures
  • How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend
  • How a Man May Become Aware of His Progress in Virtue

Volume II

  • How to Profit by One's Enemies
  • On Having Many Friends
  • Chance
  • Virtue and Vice
  • A Letter of Condolence to Apollonius
  • Advice about Keeping Well
  • Advice to Bride and Groom
  • The Dinner of the Seven Wise Men
  • Superstition

Volume III

  • Sayings of Kings and Commanders
  • Sayings of Romans
  • Sayings of Spartans
  • Ancient Customs of the Spartans
  • Sayings of the Spartan Women
  • Bravery of Women

Volume IV

  • The Roman Questions
  • The Greek Questions
  • Greek and Roman Parallel Stories
  • On the Fortune of the Romans
  • On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander
  • Were the Athenians More Famous in War or in Wisdom?

Volume V

  • Isis and Osiris
  • On the E at Delphi
  • The Oracles at Delphi No Longer Given in Verse
  • The Obsolescence of Oracles

Volume VI

  • Can Virtue Be Taught?
  • On Moral Virtue
  • On the Control of Anger
  • On Tranquility of Mind
  • On Brotherly Love
  • On Affection for Offspring
  • Whether Vice Be Sufficient to Cause Unhappiness
  • Whether Affections of the Soul Are Worse than Those of the Body
  • Concerning Talkativeness
  • On Being a Busybody

Volume VII

  • On Love of Wealth
  • On Compliancy
  • On Envy and Hate
  • On Praising Oneself Inoffensively
  • On the Delays of Divine Vengeance
  • On Fate
  • On the Sign of Socrates
  • On Exile
  • Consolation to His Wife

Volume VIII

  • Table-Talk, Books I–VI

Volume IX

  • Table-Talk, Books VII–IX
  • The Dialogue on Love

Volume X

  • Love Stories
  • That a Philosopher Ought to Converse Especially with Men in Power
  • To an Uneducated Ruler
  • Whether an Old Man Should Engage in Public Affairs
  • Precepts of Statecraft
  • On Monarchy, Democracy, and Oligarchy
  • That We Ought Not to Borrow
  • Lives of the Ten Orators
  • Summary of a Comparison Between Aristophanes and Menander

Volume XI

  • On the Malice of Herodotus
  • Causes of Natural Phenomena

Volume XII

  • Concerning the Face Which Appears in the Orb of the Moon
  • On the Principle of Cold
  • Whether Fire or Water Is More Useful
  • Whether Land or Sea Animals Are Cleverer
  • Appendix: Zoological Terms
  • Beasts Are Rational
  • On the Eating of Flesh

Volume XIII

  • Platonic Questions
  • On the Generation of the Soul in the Timaeus
  • Epitome of 'On the Generation of the Soul in the Timaeus'
  • On Stoic Self-Contradictions
  • The Stoics Talk More Paradoxically than the Poets
  • Against the Stoics on Common Conceptions

Volume XIV

  • That Epicurus Actually Makes a Pleasant Life Impossible
  • Reply to Colotes in Defence of the Other Philosophers
  • Is 'Live Unknown' a Wise Precept?
  • On Music

Volume XV

  • Fragments

Volume XVI

  • Index

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