Greek & Roman
mobi |eng | | Author:Plato,

* * * End of Project Gutenberg's Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates, by Plato *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK APOLOGY, CRITO, AND PHAEDO *** ***** This file ...
( Category: Greek & Roman May 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Plato,

* * * End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of Parmenides, by Plato * * * Parmenides, by Plato A free ebook from http://manybooks.net/ Parmenides Table of Contents
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-28 | Author:Anthony Kenny [Kenny, Anthony]

Hobbes Of those who had been invited to comment on Descartes’ Meditations in 1641, the most distinguished was Thomas Hobbes, the foremost English philosopher of the age. At that time ...
( Category: Modern April 20,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:James Romm

Unable to resign even at the price of his huge estate, Seneca had nonetheless withdrawn from court to the degree that was safe. He no longer kept up the routine ...
( Category: Rome April 5,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:E. H. Gombrich

THE MONGOLS In Germany the death of the last Hohenstaufen led to greater confusion than ever. No one could agree on a new king so none was chosen. And because ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:George Robert Stowe Mead [Mead, George Robert Stowe]

* * * Section X. THE GYMNOSOPHISTS OF UPPER EGYPT. We now come to Apollonius’ visit to the “Gymnosophists” in “Ethiopia,” which, though the artistic and literary goal of Apollonius’ ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 19,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Bertrand Russell

Having failed to conciliate the Medici, Machiavelli was compelled to go on writing. He lived in retirement until the year of his death, which was that of the sack of ...
( Category: History & Surveys March 4,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-02-28 | Author:Plato

Impossible, he replied. She is held fast by the corporeal, which the continual association and constant care of the body have wrought into her nature. Very true. And this corporeal ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 1971-03-15 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

He says ‘no’ and I say ‘no’. He says ‘yes’, and I say ‘yes’. In other words I have made it my duty to agree with him in everything.1 That ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 3,2015 )
azw, mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-03 | Author:Aristotle

Euripides has thus embodied this sentiment; "How," says one of his Characters, "How foolish am I, who whereas I might have shared equally, idly numbered among the multitude of the ...
( Category: History & Theory January 17,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:Joe Lee [Lee, Joe]

Brutus is the black mouth’s meal and Cassius, the white. To us it may seem strange to have these two almost equal with he who propelled the sacrifice of Christ, ...
( Category: Poetry November 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:Seneca

ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE [Our time is so precious we must be sure to make the best use of it] 1 Most human beings, Paulinus,1 complain about the meanness ...
( Category: Rome November 23,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-12 | Author:Confucius

11.18 Chai [Zigao] is simpleminded; Can [Zeng Can, or Zengzi] is slow; Shi [Zizhang] is given to excess; You [Zilu] tends to be unruly. Zigao was a disciple of Confucius, ...
( Category: Asian November 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-05 | Author:Epictetus & Epictetus

12 Every circumstance represents an opportunity [1] Just about everyone agrees that ‘good’ or ‘bad’ in the case of objective judgements applies to us, not to things outside us. [2] ...
( Category: Greek & Roman November 13,2014 )
epub | | 2010-03-22 | Author:Platon [Platon]

Din aceste motive, navigatorul nu-şi poate permite să se grozăvească cu salvarea noastră. La fel, omule minunat, se întîmplă şi cu constructorul de maşini de război, care uneori este mai ...
( Category: Greek & Roman November 13,2014 )