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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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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.

What you will learn

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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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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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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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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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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Hippias MinorPlato

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Hippias Minor

Beginning with Homer’s Achilles and Odysseus, Socrates leads Hippias toward a paradox: the voluntary deceiver seems to possess more knowledge than someone mistaken unwillingly. The conclusion unsettles ordinary categories of fault and competence.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-390 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 14 passages · 5,950 words

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LachesPlato

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Laches

Two fathers consult Nicias and Laches about military education for their sons; Socrates returns the decision to a definition of courage. Endurance, knowledge of dangers, and battlefield conduct are tested without a final answer.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-380 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 24 passages · 11,014 words

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Laws

An Athenian, a Cretan, and a Spartan design institutions for a new city. Without Socrates, the dialogue examines legislation, education, worship, property, family, and punishment, asking how law can form citizens rather than merely constrain them.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 360-347 BCE; late work left unfinished
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 327 passages · 148,152 words

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Lysis

In a wrestling school, Socrates converses with Lysis and Menexenus about friendship. Like with like, opposite with opposite, need, and desire are proposed as principles of attachment, and each encounters a difficulty.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-380 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 21 passages · 9,764 words

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MeditationsMarcus Aurelius

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Meditations

Marcus Aurelius records private reminders for governing judgement, desire, and action under the pressure of power. The text repeatedly sets life’s brevity against the duty to act justly.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 170-180 CE
Editions / translations: 1876 · 1889 · 1902
Languages: Ancient Greek · French · English
Extent: 487 passages · 45,694 words

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Meno

Meno asks whether virtue can be taught. Socrates first requires a definition, then introduces recollection, geometrical inquiry with an enslaved boy, and the difference between true opinion and knowledge secured by an account.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 390-380 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 31 passages · 13,779 words

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Minos, a Pseudo-Platonic DialoguePlato

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Minos, a Pseudo-Platonic Dialogue

Socrates and a companion ask what law is: a city’s decision, an opinion, or discovery of what is genuinely just. King Minos then becomes the example of a legislator educated by Zeus in a praise whose implications remain disputed.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th-3rd centuries BCE; pseudo-Platonic attribution
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 9 passages · 3,960 words

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Moral Letters to LuciliusSeneca

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Moral Letters to Lucilius

Seneca turns the letter into a moral workshop: ordinary situations become tests of judgement, time, and freedom. Lucilius is both addressee and partner in a course of practice the reader is invited to continue.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 62-65 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · French · English
Extent: 2,141 passages · 209,173 words

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On AngerSeneca

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On Anger

Seneca analyzes anger as a desire to punish a perceived wrong and denies that it is useful energy for virtue. The treatise examines its causes, political and domestic damage, and exercises for preventing or slowing its onset.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 41-52 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 100 passages · 40,088 words