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The Book of Lieh-Tzu

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Liezi

Although Lieh Tzu's work has evidently passed through the hands of many editors and gathered numerous accretions, there remains a considerab…

Walking

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Henry David Thoreau

This was originally a lecture given by Thoreau in 1851 at the Concord lyceum titled "The Wild" . He revised it before his death an…

She-rab Dong-bu (The Tree of Wisdom)

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Nagarjuna

The She-rab Dong-bu (Tree of Wisdom) is a metrical translation in Tibetan of a Sanscrit ethical work entitled Prajnya Danda, written by Naga…

Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure

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Liezi

At the Court of Liang at the period of Yang Chu, about 300 B.C., the philosophers were treated as guests of the reigning king, who reserved …

Zarathustra's Prologue

In Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

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Friedrich Nietzsche, transl. Thomas Common and Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contempo…

Aphorisms 66 - 90

In The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

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Epictetus

Aphorisms from the Stoic Greek.

Chapter 1: Of the Distress of Arjuna

In Bhagavad Gita

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Translated by Sir Edwin Arnold, Unknowntranslated Bysir Edwin Arnold and Translated Bysir Edwin Arnold

The content of the text is a conversation between Krishna and Arjuna taking place on the battlefield of Kurukshetra just prior to the start …

Section 3, Chapters 9-14

In The Dhammapada

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F. Max Muller, Unknowntranslated Byf. Max Müller and Translated Byf. Max Müller

The Dhammapada is is a Buddhist scripture, containing 423 verses in 26 categories. According to tradition, these are verses spoken by the Bu…