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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.

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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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Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Nietzsche

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Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1886
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 302 passages · 62,008 words

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DaybreakFriedrich Nietzsche

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Daybreak

Daybreak must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1881
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 581 passages · 86,086 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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How a Young Man Should Study PoetryPlutarch

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How a Young Man Should Study Poetry

How a Young Man Should Study Poetry 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: 14 passages · 16,252 words

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Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter

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Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth Carter

Elizabeth Carter opens her translation of Epictetus with an account of Stoicism, its three fields of exercise, and its moral vocabulary. She provides readers with orientation while comparing some ancient claims with her Christian commitments.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 1749-1758; published in 1759
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 37 passages · 8,770 words

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Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine TalbotElizabeth Carter

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Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot

Carter’s letters to Catherine Talbot follow an intellectual friendship shaped by reading, health, faith, work, and daily news. Private conversation becomes a place for testing scholarly vocation, social duty, and female independence.

What you will learn

Composition: correspondence, 1741-1770
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 139 passages · 109,330 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.

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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 BenefitsSeneca

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On Benefits

Seneca examines the art of giving, receiving, and returning a benefit in a society structured by obligation. Intention, gratitude, debt, and freedom distinguish moral exchange from commercial calculation and humiliating power.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 56-64 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 228 passages · 81,267 words

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On DutiesCicero

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On Duties

Addressed to his son Marcus, the treatise examines what honour demands, what advantage recommends, and why their conflict is only apparent when utility is rightly understood. Cicero translates Greek ethics into Roman responsibilities.

What you will learn

Composition: 44 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 371 passages · 114,758 words

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On FateCicero

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On Fate

In this fragmentary dialogue, Cicero asks whether causal chains and the truth of future statements abolish human freedom. Modal logic, causation, and responsibility meet in a rejection of inescapable fatalism.

What you will learn

Composition: 44 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 48 passages · 7,134 words

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On the Genealogy of MoralityFriedrich Nietzsche

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On the Genealogy of Morality

On the Genealogy of Morality must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1887
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 84 passages · 45,161 words

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On the Nature of the GodsCicero

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On the Nature of the Gods

Epicurean, Stoic, and Academic speakers confront accounts of gods, providence, and the world. Cicero distributes argument among several voices so theology, physics, and criticism of evidence can answer one another without a summary conclusion.

What you will learn

Composition: 45 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 386 passages · 49,688 words

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On Tranquillity of MindSeneca

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On Tranquillity of Mind

Serenus describes an instability making him alternate among ambition, simplicity, engagement, and retreat. Seneca’s reply seeks practical steadiness: choose fitting work, limit agitation, and retain flexibility able to face reversals.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 55-62 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 17 passages · 13,372 words

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Pearson: Cleanthes fragmentsCleanthes

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Pearson: Cleanthes fragments

This Pearson section gathers ancient witnesses to Cleanthes without turning them into a continuous book.

What you will learn

Composition: 3rd century BCE; fragments and testimonia transmitted later
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 95 passages · 27,697 words

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Richard Wagner in BayreuthFriedrich Nietzsche

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Richard Wagner in Bayreuth

Richard Wagner in Bayreuth must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

What you will learn

Composition: 1876
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 29 passages · 25,781 words

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The Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes: Zeno Section, Edited by A. C. PearsonZeno of Citium

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The Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes: Zeno Section, Edited by A. C. Pearson

A. C. Pearson gathers and comments on available witnesses to Zeno in a scholarly edition also devoted to Cleanthes. The Zeno section transmits ancient sources through a modern editor’s selection, order, critical text, and interpretation.

What you will learn

Composition: late 4th and 3rd centuries BCE; fragments and testimonia transmitted later
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 181 passages · 53,614 words