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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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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

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AcademicaCicero

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Academica

In the surviving fragments of the Academica, Cicero stages the conflict between dogmatic certainty and sceptical inquiry. He asks what criterion can identify a true impression and how action remains possible when secure knowledge is disputed.

What you will learn

Composition: 45 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 69 passages · 215,055 words

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Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades

Fragments or testimony

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
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · Latin · French · English
Extent: 100 passages · 35,730 words

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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.

What you will learn

Composition: 1689-1700; revised lifetime editions
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 1,114 passages · 257,071 words

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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

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Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero

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Brutus, or On Eminent Orators

Cicero traces the history of Roman eloquence through the speakers who shaped it. The dialogue combines criticism, portraiture, and an anxious reflection on public speech at a moment when the Republic is losing its freedom.

What you will learn

Composition: 46 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 334 passages · 79,995 words

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Cato the YoungerPlutarch

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Cato the Younger

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

What you will learn

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

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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.

What you will learn

Composition: collected papers, c. 1902-1916
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 508 passages · 156,362 words

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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

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DeuteronomyMoses

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Epinomis, an Ancient Appendix to the LawsPlato

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Epinomis, an Ancient Appendix to the Laws

The Epinomis returns to the wisdom required by a legislator and directs it toward number, astronomy, and worship of the stars. Transmitted as a sequel to the Laws, it has an ancient but strongly disputed attribution to Plato.

What you will learn

Composition: after 347, c. 347-330 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 20 passages · 9,251 words

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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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EuthydemusPlato

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Euthydemus

Socrates recounts an encounter in which Euthydemus and Dionysodorus overwhelm a young man with verbal refutations. The dialogue opposes eristic victory to an educational search for knowledge capable of making life flourish.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 390-370 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 37 passages · 17,127 words

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First AlcibiadesPlato

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First Alcibiades

Socrates questions the young Alcibiades as he prepares to enter Athenian politics. The dialogue turns political confidence into self-examination: how can one advise a city without knowing justice, common interest, and the self requiring formation?

What you will learn

Composition: c. 350-330 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 33 passages · 15,272 words

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Hippias MajorPlato

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Hippias Major

Socrates asks the sophist Hippias not which things are beautiful but what beauty itself is. A young woman, gold, appropriateness, utility, and sensory pleasure each fail to provide a definition without counterexample.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; authenticity disputed
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 24 passages · 11,859 words