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We do not always look for a work, a text, or a passage in the same way. Browse by work as you would in a traditional library, travel through time, follow a semantic concept, or go straight to a precise excerpt. This Library exists to support practice and deeper study by bringing old texts into contact with daily experience and present questions.

Works
305
Authors
94
Passages
89,767
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Corpus works
259
Private works
46
Private records
56
Private excerpts
20,006
Text representations
223,819
Editions and translations
849
Languages
17
Works in French and English
259
Multilingual works
259
Tracked concepts
9
Estimated sentences
1,456,557
Words
27,541,029

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Photorealistic editorial illustration of Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents in the Prokopton42.com Library Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record

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Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents

Incoming letters, petitions, and administrative records preserve the voices of people who petitioned, informed, or challenged Lincoln. The archive reveals the pressures of a wartime presidency without attributing his correspondents’ words to the president.

What you will learn
Composition
1833-1916
Editions / translations
2026
Languages
English · French
Extent
19,210 passages · 7,989,852 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Ancient testimonia on Carneades in the Prokopton42.com Library Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades

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Ancient testimonia on Carneades

One hundred carrier passages follow Carneades from criticism of certain apprehension to probable judgment without inventing a book for him.

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Composition
carriers from the 1st century BCE to the 3rd century CE; testimonia on Carneades
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Dates to be documented
Languages
Ancient Greek · Latin · French · English
Extent
100 passages · 35,730 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in the Prokopton42.com Library An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

The Essay examines the origin and composition of ideas, personal identity, and the limits of knowledge.

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Composition
1689-1700; revised lifetime editions
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
English · French
Extent
1,114 passages · 257,071 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses in the Prokopton42.com Library Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha

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Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses

The Aṅguttara Nikāya arranges teachings attributed to the Buddha in ascending numbered sets, from one item to eleven. Its mnemonic structure brings together conduct, mental training, communal life, and stages of awakening.

What you will learn
Composition
oral strata, late 5th to 3rd centuries BCE; later Pali organization
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
English · French · Pali
Extent
1,408 passages · 443,916 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Cato the Younger in the Prokopton42.com Library Cato the YoungerPlutarch

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Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger observes character in action and tests moral rules against concrete situations.

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Composition
late 1st to early 2nd century CE; internal order uncertain
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent
318 passages · 25,464 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology in the Prokopton42.com Library Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung

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Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology

These essays by the early Jung trace the emergence of analytical psychology through word association, complexes, dreams, and the therapeutic relationship. Their collection shows a field in formation, still near Freud yet already developing its own distinctions.

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Composition
collected papers, c. 1902-1916
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
English · French
Extent
508 passages · 156,362 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Consolation to Helvia, His Mother in the Prokopton42.com Library Consolation to Helvia, His MotherSeneca

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Consolation to Helvia, His Mother

From exile in Corsica, Seneca consoles his mother Helvia for his absence. He turns displacement, loss of status, and family concern into an exercise in self-sufficiency, study, and the wise person’s belonging to the whole world.

What you will learn
Composition
c. 42-43 CE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Latin · English · French
Extent
20 passages · 11,358 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Consolation to Polybius in the Prokopton42.com Library Consolation to PolybiusSeneca

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Consolation to Polybius

Seneca consoles Polybius after his brother’s death while indirectly seeking Emperor Claudius’ clemency. Reflection on grief and courtly praise mingle in a text where the exile also seeks conditions for his return.

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Composition
c. 43-44 CE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Latin · English · French
Extent
18 passages · 9,564 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Critias in the Prokopton42.com Library CritiasPlato

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Critias

Critias tells of ancient Athens and Atlantis, an island power whose initial order decays into desire for domination. The narrative continues the Timaeus but breaks off before the announced war and provides no completed conclusion.

What you will learn
Composition
c. 360-347 BCE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent
16 passages · 7,257 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue in the Prokopton42.com Library Daodejing, Book of the Way and VirtueLaozi

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Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue

The Daodejing explores a Way that cannot be possessed by names and an action that avoids needless force. Its compressed sayings join government, simplicity, withdrawal, and the power of what appears weak.

What you will learn
Composition
layered composition, 4th-3rd centuries BCE
Editions / translations
1842 · 1891
Languages
Classical Chinese · English · French
Extent
81 passages · 10,432 words
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Deuteronomy

Speeches of memory and law on the plains of Moab before entry into the promised land.

What you will learn
Composition
traditional Mosaic attribution; received composition and redaction across several centuries
Editions / translations
2020 · 2022 · 2025
Languages
Hebrew · French · English
Extent
34 passages · 28,325 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Dhammapada: Verses on the Dhamma in the Prokopton42.com Library Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha

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Dhammapada: Verses on the Dhamma

The Dhammapada gathers verses attributed to the Buddha on mind, heedfulness, violence, desire, and the conduct of the wise. Its vivid images condense a moral pedagogy meant to be remembered, recited, and tested against experience.

What you will learn
Composition
verse strata, 5th-2nd centuries BCE; collection attested by the 2nd century BCE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
English · Pali · French
Extent
26 passages · 10,265 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic Orations in the Prokopton42.com Library Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic OrationsDio Chrysostom

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Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic Orations

Dio Chrysostom stages Diogenes to examine kingship, freedom, and wealth. These imperial-period orations use the Cynic as an exemplary and provocative character; they witness a later reception rather than transcribe his speech.

What you will learn
Composition
late 1st or early 2nd century CE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent
5 passages · 26,283 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by Arrian in the Prokopton42.com Library Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus

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Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by Arrian

Arrian transmits Epictetus’ oral teaching as lively exchanges with students. The teacher confronts their ambitions, fears, and inconsistencies with a central demand: govern assent, desire, and action rather than claim command over events.

What you will learn
Composition
teaching recorded by Arrian, c. 108-125 CE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent
95 passages · 118,661 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Discourses of Musonius Rufus Reported by Lucius in the Prokopton42.com Library Discourses of Musonius Rufus Reported by LuciusMusonius Rufus

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Discourses of Musonius Rufus Reported by Lucius

Lucius reports teachings in which Musonius applies philosophy to food, housing, marriage, education, and exile. Virtue is tested in ordinary habits and must be practised by women as well as men.

What you will learn
Composition
late 1st or early 2nd century CE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent
21 passages · 21,330 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long Discourses in the Prokopton42.com Library Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha

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Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long Discourses

The Dīgha Nikāya contains extended teachings in which the Buddha and his interlocutors examine ritual, rival doctrines, ethics, meditation, and human destiny. Several narratives also portray the Buddhist community and preserve memories of the teacher’s final days.

What you will learn
Composition
oral strata, late 5th to 3rd centuries BCE; later Pali organization
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
English · Pali · French
Extent
34 passages · 188,836 words
Published edition cover of Enchiridion of Epictetus Enchiridion of EpictetusEpictetus

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Enchiridion of Epictetus

The Enchiridion condenses Epictetus’ teaching into rules of discernment and exercise. Its opening distinction is sharp: some things are up to us and others are not.

What you will learn
Composition
early 2nd century CE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent
53 passages · 8,138 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Ethics, Émile Saisset’s French Translation in the Prokopton42.com Library Ethics, Émile Saisset’s French TranslationBaruch Spinoza

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Ethics, Émile Saisset’s French Translation

Émile Saisset’s translation gives the demonstrative architecture of Spinoza’s Ethics in French. God identified with Nature, mind-body parallelism, analysis of passions, and intellectual blessedness unfold through nineteenth-century terminology.

What you will learn
Composition
composed c. 1661-1675; published in 1677
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
French · English
Extent
300 passages · 92,036 words

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