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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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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.

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Composition: 1833-1916
Editions / translations: 2026
Languages: English · French
Extent: 19,210 passages · 7,989,852 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.

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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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CharmidesPlato

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Charmides

Returning from military service, Socrates meets Charmides and Critias and asks what temperance is. Quietness, modesty, doing one’s own work, and self-knowledge are proposed in turn and put to the test.

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Composition: c. 399-380 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 24 passages · 11,134 words

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Natural QuestionsSeneca

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Natural Questions

Seneca investigates lightning, thunder, waters, winds, earthquakes, comets, and atmospheric phenomena. Physical explanations alternate with moral exhortation: observing the heavens should reduce superstition and place human ambition on a cosmic scale.

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Composition: c. 62-64 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · French · English
Extent: 201 passages · 76,681 words

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Socrates in Plato’s CharmidesPlato

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Socrates in Plato’s Charmides

Plato shows Socrates returning from campaign, attentive to the beautiful Charmides yet redirecting the encounter toward temperance and care of the soul. His questioning leads Charmides and then Critias from confident definitions to acknowledged difficulty.

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Composition: c. 399-380 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 24 passages · 11,134 words

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Sunzi Bingfa, The Art of WarSun Tzu

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Sunzi Bingfa, The Art of War

Sunzi treats war as a problem of intelligence, cost, terrain, command, and configuration. Combat is not glorified: the strategist changes conditions to secure an outcome while limiting duration, destruction, and uncertainty.

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Composition: layered composition, Warring States period, 5th-3rd centuries BCE
Editions / translations: 1772 · 1910
Languages: Classical Chinese · English · French
Extent: 13 passages · 10,828 words

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The EssaysMichel de Montaigne

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The Essays

The Essays test a changing life against customs, books, and the body. Montaigne revises his judgment instead of hiding its contradictions.

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Composition: 1580-1592; authorial layers, posthumous 1595 edition
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: French · English
Extent: 106 passages · 458,785 words