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Philosophy
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Dialogues of Plato — JowettTwenty-three dialogues of Plato in Benjamin Jowett's Oxford translation — the Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, Gorgias, Meno, Ion, Republic extracts, Timaeus, Theaetetus, Parmenides, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus, and others.Golden Verses of Pythagoras — FirthThe Golden Verses of Pythagoras and other Pythagorean fragments — the foundational ethical text of the Pythagorean school, with Hierocles' commentary and other fragments. Translated by Florence M. Firth (1904).The Discourses of EpictetusThe Discourses of Epictetus, Books III and IV — recorded by Arrian of Nicomedia; translated by W. A. Oldfather. Loeb Classical Library, 1928. Practical Stoic philosophy on freedom, desire, discipline of assent, and the examined life.The Meditations of Marcus AureliusThe private philosophical notebooks of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius — twelve books of Stoic reflection on duty, impermanence, reason, and the examined life, written in Greek during military campaigns on the northern frontier, circa AD 161–180.