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BOOK IV

Chapters of the Fourth Book

I.	Of freedom.
II.	Of social intercourse.
III.	What things should be exchanged for what things?
IV.	To those who have set their hearts upon living in peace.
V.	Against the contentious and brutal.
VI.	To those who are vexed at being pitied.
VII.	Of freedom from fear.
VIII.	To those who hastily assume the guise of the philosophers.
IX.	To the man who had become shameless.
X.	What ought we to despise and on what place a high value?
XI.	Of cleanliness.
XII.	Of attention.
XIII.	To those who lightly talk about their own affairs.

CHAPTER I

Of freedom

He is free who lives as he wills, who is subject neither to compulsion, nor hindrance, nor force, whose choices are unhampered, whose desires attain their end, whose aversions do not fall into what they would avoid. Who, then, wishes to live in error?—No one.—Who wishes to live deceived, impetuous, unjust, unrestrained, peevish, abject?—No one.—Therefore, there is no bad man who lives as

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