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“marcus aurelius antonius”

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  • The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

    by Marcus Aurelius Antonius ...
    Marcus Aurelius was a Roman Emperor from 161 to 180. He ruled with Lucius Verus as co-emperor from 161 until Verus' death in 169. He was the last of the Five Good Emperors, and is also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers.During his reign, the Empire defeated a revitalized Parthian Empire in the East; Aurelius' general Avidius Cassius sacked the capital Ctesiphon in 164. In ... Read more

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  • Meditations

    by Marcus Aurelius Antonius ...
    was born on April 26, A.D. 121. His real name was M. Annius Verus, and he was sprung of a noble family which claimed descent from Numa, second King of Rome. Thus the most religious of emperors came of the blood of the most pious of early kings. His father, Annius Verus, had held high office in Rome, and his grandfather, of the same name, had been thrice Consul. Both his parents died young, but ... Read more

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  • Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete

    by Michel de Montaigne ...
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  • Alexander the Great

    by Jacob Abbott ...
    Jacob Abbott was a prominent American writer in the nineteenth century. Abbott was a very prolific author of books for children as well as detailed histories and biographies on some of the world's most famous figures and events. Abbott's best known biographies are on Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Cleopatra, and Julius Caesar.Abbott's book on Alexander the Great, published in 1848, is part of ... Read more

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  • The Borgias

    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    Series series Celebrated Crimes
    "The Borgias" by Alexandre Dumas is a dramatic and scandalous retelling of one of history’s most infamous families. Set in Renaissance Italy, the novel chronicles the rise and fall of the Borgia dynasty, led by Pope Alexander VI and his children, Cesare and Lucrezia. Dumas explores their relentless pursuit of power through ambition, betrayal, and corruption, set against a backdrop of political ... Read more

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  • On Liberty

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    The subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical ... Read more

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  • The Republic

    Translated by Benjamin Jowett ...
    by Platon ...
    Plato was the first Western philosopher to apply philosophy to politics. His ideas on, for example, the nature and value of justice, and the relationship between justice and politics, have been extraordinarily influential. „The Republic” of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the „Laws”, and is certainly the greatest of them. Presented as a series of dialogue between Socrates ... Read more

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  • Discourses and Selected Writings

    by Epictetus ...
    Translated by Robert Dobbin ...
    Contains The Discourses/Fragments/Enchiridion'I must die. But must I die bawling?'Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. The Discourses argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive ... Read more

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