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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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Death is nothing to us

Works

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Published edition cover of Enchiridion of Epictetus Enchiridion of EpictetusEpictetus

Work

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 Letter to Menoeceus in the Prokopton42.com Library Letter to MenoeceusEpicurus

Fragments or testimony

Letter to Menoeceus

Epicurus links happiness to a sober examination of desires, death, and choice. The pleasure at stake is stability freed from needless fear, not a race toward excess.

What you will learn
Composition
late 4th or early 3rd century BCE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent
1 passage · 1,933 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Outlines of Pyrrhonism in the Prokopton42.com Library Outlines of PyrrhonismSextus Empiricus

Work

Outlines of Pyrrhonism

Sextus presents Pyrrhonian scepticism as an ability to oppose appearances and arguments until judgement is suspended. Tranquillity then follows without affirming a doctrine about the real nature of things.

What you will learn
Composition
c. 180-220 CE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent
3 passages · 68,840 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Principal Doctrines in the Prokopton42.com Library Principal DoctrinesEpicurus

Work

Principal Doctrines

The Principal Doctrines condense Epicurean ethics into propositions about gods, death, desire, justice, friendship, and security. Their sequence supplies a doctrinal aid to memory rather than continuous demonstration.

What you will learn
Composition
3rd century BCE; compilation of sayings by Epicurus and associates
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
English · Ancient Greek · French
Extent
40 passages · 1,635 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Socrates in Plato’s Gorgias in the Prokopton42.com Library Socrates in Plato’s GorgiasPlato

Work

Socrates in Plato’s Gorgias

Facing three defenders of rhetoric and power, Plato’s Socrates argues that speech without knowledge of justice is flattery. He prefers suffering injustice to deforming his soul by committing it.

What you will learn
Composition
c. 390-380 BCE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent
81 passages · 42,811 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Tusculan Disputations in the Prokopton42.com Library Tusculan DisputationsCicero

Work

Tusculan Disputations

In five debates held at Tusculum, Cicero examines fear of death, pain, grief, passions, and the sufficiency of virtue. Philosophy becomes argumentative therapy against judgements that enslave the mind.

What you will learn
Composition
45 BCE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Latin · English · French
Extent
475 passages · 182,021 words

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