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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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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.

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

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Consolation to Helvia, His MotherSeneca

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Consolation to Helvia, His Mother

From exile in Corsica, Seneca consoles his mother Helvia for his absence. He turns displacement, loss of status, and family concern into an exercise in self-sufficiency, study, and the wise person’s belonging to the whole world.

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Composition: c. 42-43 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 20 passages · 11,358 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.

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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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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.

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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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Letters to AtticusCicero

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Letters to Atticus

In letters to Atticus, Cicero shares calculations, fears, and reversals with his closest political confidant. The correspondence preserves a voice less polished than the speeches, caught within the crises of the late Republic.

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Composition: 68-44 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 1,479 passages · 211,714 words

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Letters to FriendsCicero

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Letters to Friends

The Letters to Friends gather Cicero’s exchanges with magistrates, allies, relatives, and protégés. Recommendations, intelligence, and political appeals reveal the Republic as a fabric of personal obligations, negotiation, and fragile loyalties.

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Composition: 62-43 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 1,342 passages · 225,910 words

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Miscellaneous Prose by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter

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Miscellaneous Prose by Elizabeth Carter

This dossier gathers Carter’s prose ranging from philological criticism to moral and religious reflection. Debates over Greek translation, scholarly remarks, and detached essays reveal a precise practice of reading rather than a unified treatise.

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Composition: texts composed before 1806; posthumous 1807 collection
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 45 passages · 10,934 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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Nicomachean EthicsAristotle

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Nicomachean Ethics

Nicomachean Ethics proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

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Composition: 4th century BCE; internal chronology disputed
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 116 passages · 89,657 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

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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.

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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 ClemencySeneca

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On Clemency

Addressed to the young Nero, the treatise presents clemency as rational governance of the power to punish. Seneca constructs a mirror for princes in which imperial authority differs from cruelty, weakness, and undiscriminating pardon.

What you will learn

Composition: 55-56 CE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 33 passages · 14,902 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 Old AgeCicero

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On Old Age

Through the voice of Cato the Elder, Cicero answers charges against old age: withdrawal from affairs, weakness, loss of pleasures, and proximity to death. The dialogue defends adapted activity rather than denying decline.

What you will learn

Composition: 44 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 85 passages · 13,563 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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PhilippicsCicero

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Philippics

In the Philippics, Cicero attacks Mark Antony and tries to rally the Senate to resistance after Caesar’s death. The speeches combine invective, constitutional argument, and alliance-building in a Republic already under threat.

What you will learn

Composition: 44-43 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 544 passages · 100,289 words

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Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke

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Second Treatise of Government

The Second Treatise distinguishes the state of nature from war and grounds legitimate power in consent, trust and public good.

What you will learn

Composition: 1689-1690; anonymous publication
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 19 passages · 55,336 words