Πολιτικά (Politiká)

by Aristotle

The citizen is whoever has a right to take part in deliberative and judicial office in a city.

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...

Poetics

by Aristotle

I PROPOSE to treat of Poetry in itself and of its various kinds, noting the essential quality of each, to inquire into t...

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

Leviathan

by Thomas Hobbes

NATURE (the art whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this a...

Vom Kriege

by Carl von Clausewitz

Despite its comprehensiveness, systematic approach, and precise style, On War is not a finished work.

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...

Lives

by Plutarch

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

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

En un radiante y frío día de abril los relojes marcaban las trece.

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...

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

The above-described events took place in the winter.

La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark,

Essais

by Montaigne, Michel de

The Constitution of the United States and related documents

by United States

SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist...

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...

Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...

Cyropaedia

by Xenophon

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

De civitate Dei

by Augustine of Hippo

One of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretat...

Plutarchi Vitae parallelae

by Plutarch

Tartuffe

by Molière

Come, come, Flipotte, and let me get away.