This lecture discusses the first two questions in "Stoic Paradoxes", which deal with the following issues:
1. Wealth is an illusion.
2. What is a good?
3. Those who value pleasure too much are deluded.
4. Pleasure distracts the mind from the truth.
5. Virtue is a well of strength.
6. Death and exile are not threats to the wise man.
7. A truly wise man cannot be miserable.
