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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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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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Consolation to MarciaSeneca

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Consolation to Marcia

Seneca addresses Marcia, long overwhelmed by the death of her son. He contrasts models of mourning, recalls the vulnerability of every life, and seeks a memory that honours the dead without indefinitely sustaining the wound.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 39-40 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 26 passages · 14,991 words

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CratylusPlato

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Cratylus

Hermogenes, Cratylus, and Socrates debate the correctness of names: does it arise from convention or natural fit with things? Proliferating etymologies eventually move inquiry from language toward knowledge of reality.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 390-360 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 58 passages · 24,169 words

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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

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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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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

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Existentialism Is a HumanismJean-Paul Sartre

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Existentialism Is a Humanism

Sartre defends existentialism against quietism and despair: a person defines themselves through acts, within a situation they did not wholly choose.

What you will learn

Composition: October 1945 lecture; 1966 Nagel manifestation
Editions / translations: 1966
Languages: French · English
Extent: 20 passages · 11,542 words

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Geometry and Experience, French TranslationAlbert Einstein

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Geometry and Experience, French Translation

Einstein asks how axiomatic geometry, valid by deduction, can describe physical bodies and measurements. This French translation clarifies the difference between a formal system, practical geometry, and the choice of a framework for relativity.

What you will learn

Composition: 1921 lecture
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: French · English
Extent: 18 passages · 4,856 words

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Hipparchus, a Pseudo-Platonic DialoguePlato

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Hipparchus, a Pseudo-Platonic Dialogue

Socrates and an unnamed interlocutor ask what it means to love gain. By arguing that no one truly desires what is judged worthless, the dialogue moves a moral accusation toward the problem of error about goodness.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th-3rd centuries BCE; pseudo-Platonic attribution
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 8 passages · 3,301 words

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Interview on The Philosopher on CallRaphaël Enthoven

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Interview on The Philosopher on Call

Twenty-nine answers attributed to Raphaël Enthoven examine the media philosopher, ordinary objects, radio work, and the risk of confusing a thing with its label.

What you will learn

Composition: interview published 30 April 2011
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: French · English
Extent: 29 passages · 7,725 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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Letter to PythoclesEpicurus

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Letter to Pythocles

The Letter to Pythocles offers several possible natural explanations for celestial and meteorological phenomena. Epicurus does not always seek one cause; he aims to exclude threatening divine stories when several mechanisms remain compatible with experience.

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 · 4,286 words

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Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero

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Lucullus, Book Two of the Academica

The Lucullus pits a defence of certain knowledge against Cicero’s sceptical reply. At the centre stands the cognitive impression: can it bear a mark that guarantees truth and therefore warrants assent?

What you will learn

Composition: 45 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 148 passages · 25,042 words

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Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha

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Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length Discourses

The Majjhima Nikāya tests Buddhist teaching in concrete encounters: debates with ascetics, counsel to disciples, analyses of experience, and meditation instructions. Its variety moves from dramatic dialogue to methodical examination of mind.

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: 152 passages · 312,220 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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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