The Kybalion

by Three Initiates

Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

The first chapter consists of a typical early Platonic dialogue: it was possibly originally written separately from the ...

The guide of the perplexed of Maimonides

by Moses Maimonides

MOSES BEN MAIMON, commonly called Maimonides (1135-1204), is the leading Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages.

Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India

by Vālmīki, Robert P. Goldman

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

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

The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...

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...

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

The Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...

Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle

THE question of the genuineness and of the literary character of each of the several works which have come down to us un...

Tao te Ching

by 老子

A way become Way isn't the perennial Way.

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...

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

by J. K. Rowling

Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much...

Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους

by Πλάτων

Je ne sais trop, Atheniens, quel effet mes accusateurs ont pu produire sur vous.

Bible

by Bible

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

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...

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

THE history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

La Poetica

by Aristotle

THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their p...

Εὐθύφρων / Κρίτων / Φαίδων / Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους

by Πλάτων

Euthyphro: What are you doing at the courthouse, Socrates?