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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful and wealthy man in the world. Yet he was also ...
'When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?' MontaigneThere is no ...
A deluxe, high-quality edition of Friedrich Nietzsches seminal work Beyond Good and Evil is one of the final books by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. This ...
Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and ...
A fresh translation of one of the most recognized texts of the premodern world: The Analects is a must-read for those interested in China's ...
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One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been cherished by readers ...
To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do - but it is also the closest you can come to divinity ...
The world is in the midst of what may be the most deadly pandemic of the past 100 years. Threats to humanity, and how we ...
A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism - translated by one of the world's leading authorities on Stoic philosophy
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Considered othe Voltaire of his timeo, Bertrand Russell was a fearless iconoclast who stood unbowed before political and religious leaders; his disdain for conventional thinking ...
Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from one of the most ...
'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington Post ...
In this practical, refreshingly optimistic guide, philosopher William B. Irvine explains how centuries-old wisdom can help us better cope with everything from the everyday stresses ...
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin ...
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince is his controversial handbook ...
