Elements

by Euclid

Les fleurs du mal

by Charles Baudelaire

Losque, par un decret des puissances supremes,

Pensées

by Blaise Pascal, Philippe Sellier

1. The difference between the mathematical and the intuitive mind.

Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

[1.1] The subject of this essay is not the so-called liberty of the will - so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doct...

Discours de la méthode

by René Descartes

Good sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks himself to be so well endowed with it that ev...

La père Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac

Madame Vauquer, formerly Mademoiselle de Confians, is now an old woman.

कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

IT may be interesting to some persons to learn how it came about that Vatsyayana was first brought to light and translat...

Du contrat social

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tal vez no sea superfluo, al introducir el célebre libro de Rousseau, señalar como punto de partida que estamos ante un ...

Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)

by Sophocles

OEDIPE. - Enfants, jeune lignee de notre vieux Cadmos, que faites-vous la ainsi a genoux, pieusement pares de rameaux su...

Fables

by Jean de La Fontaine

A Grasshopper gay

Les confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Ars Amatoria

by Ovid

Si hi ha algú d'aquest poble que no conegui l'art d'estimar, que llegeixi aquest poema i, instruït per la seva lectura, ...

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

THE COMMUNIST LEAGUE, an international association of workers, which could of course be only a secret one under the cond...

Le rouge et le noir

by Stendhal

THE SMALL TOWN OF Verrieres may be regarded as one of the most attractive in the Franche-Comte.

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a "new fellow," not wearing the school uniform, and a school ...

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

Those who wish to win favor with a prince customarily offer him those things which they hold most precious or which they...

Συμπόσιον

by Πλάτων

Apollodorus. In my opinion, I am not unprepared for what you ask about; for just the other day-when I was on my way up t...

Les Liaisons dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

LETTER I: Cécile de Volanges to Sophie Carnay at the Ursuline Convent of ----. You see, my dear Sophie, I am keeping my ...

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

The above-described events took place in the winter.