Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sermon for the Feast of Epiphany on the vocation of the gentiles -- Fables -- Number I: an old queen and young peasant -- Number IX: patience and education -- Number XXIV: nightingale and warbler -- Number XXI: young Bacchus and the faun -- Number XXXII: indiscreet prayer of Neleus -- The dialogues of the dead -- Dialogue XXVIII: Dionysius and Diogenes -- Dialogue l: Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius -- Dialogue LVIII: Louis XI and Cardinal Balue -- The adventures of Telemachus -- Letters of spiritual direction -- Letter XL: on character -- Letter I: on the use of time -- Letter II: on diversions -- Letter III: chains of gold -- Letter XXVII: on pure love -- Letter VIII: fidelity in small things -- Letter LKXVI: to the Chevalier Colbert on return to faith -- Letter lLXVIII: to Chevalier Colbert on spiritual reading -- Letter to the Duc de Bourgogne on the occasion of his first communion -- Letter to Louis XIV -- The maxims of the saints.