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Aristoteles
384–322 BCE · ATHENS
The complete corpus: thirty works, the ancient biographies, and the Plato dialogues he studied under. Definitions, examples, the middle path.
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Marcus Aurelius
121–180 CE · ROME
The Meditations, his private letters to Fronto, and the Stoic master he learned from. The emperor who wrote only for himself.
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Seneca
4 BCE–65 CE · ROME
All 124 letters to Lucilius and the essays on anger, time, and the happy life. Eloquence from a man of confessed contradictions.
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Epictetus
50–135 CE · NICOPOLIS
The Discourses and the Enchiridion. The blunt ex-slave who teaches the dichotomy of control, and sends you off to practice it.
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Sokrates
470–399 BCE · ATHENS
The dialogues of Plato and Xenophon's memories of him. He professes ignorance, and only ever asks the next question.
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Platon
428–348 BCE · ATHENS
All thirty-three dialogues and the letters. The Forms, the ascent from the cave, and the teacher he never stopped crediting.
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Confucius
551–479 BCE · LU
The Analects and the classics he taught from. Ritual, duty, rectified names, and the long work of becoming a noble person.
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Lao Tzu
6TH C. BCE · ZHOU
The Tao Te Ching, whole. The way that yields, the power of the low place, the usefulness of what is not there.
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Sun Tzu
544–496 BCE · WU
The Art of War, all thirteen chapters. Winning before the battle, and knowing when not to fight at all.
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Cicero
106–43 BCE · ROME
The speeches, the letters, and the philosophical works of the republic's last great voice. Duty, friendship, old age.
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Lucretius
99–55 BCE · ROME
On the Nature of Things, the great Epicurean poem. Atoms, the fear of death, and why the world needs no anger from the gods.
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