Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...

Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

1. From* my grandfather Venus:* the lesson of noble character and even temper.

Essais

by Montaigne, Michel de

Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

Summa Theologica

by Thomas Aquinas, Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930

THE FIRST POINT: 1. Prophecy is apparently not a form of knowledge, for we read of Elisha, when he was dead his body pro...

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Aeneas and his race, delight of men and gods, life-giving Venus, it is your doing that under the wheeling cons...

History

by Herodotus

Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

De consolatione philosophiae

by Boethius

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

L'artiste est celui qui crée des choses de beauté.

Metamorphoses

by Lucius Apuleius, William Adlington

What I should like to do is to weave together different tales in this Milesian mode of story-telling and to stroke your ...

Mishneh Torah (Codification of Talmudic laws)

by Moses Maimonides

Ἀνάβασις

by Xenophon

Darius and Parysatis had two sons: the elder was named Artaxerxes, and I the younger Cyrus.

An essay on man

by Alexander Pope

HAVING proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners, such as (to use my lord Bacon's expression) came home to...

Cyropaedia

by Xenophon

Xenophon's Education of Cyrus offers its own introduction, one that helps turn the reader's attention to the core issues...

Dei delitte e delle pene

by Cesare Beccaria

Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) is known almost exclusively as the author of On Crimes and Punishments, a short book on crim...