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Confucius, Analects, tr. James Legge (1893)
Emerson, Essays, Second Series (1844)
Emerson, Essays, First Series (1847)
Epictetus, Discourses and Encheiridion, tr. George Long (1877)
Lao Tzu, Tao Teh King, tr. James Legge (1891)
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, tr. George Long (1873)
Montaigne, Essays, tr. Charles Cotton; rev. William Carew Hazlitt (1877)
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, tr. Helen Zimmern (1907)
Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, tr. Thomas Common (1909)
Nietzsche, Human, All-Too-Human, Part 1, tr. Helen Zimmern; verse tr. Thomas Common (1909)
Nietzsche, The Dawn of Day, tr. J. M. Kennedy (1911)
Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals, tr. Horace B. Samuel; verse tr. J. M. Kennedy (1913)
Pascal, Thoughts, tr. C. Kegan Paul (1885)
Plato, Republic, tr. Benjamin Jowett (1888)
Plato, Apology, tr. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims, tr. T. Bailey Saunders (1890)
Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life, tr. T. Bailey Saunders (1890)
Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism, tr. T. Bailey Saunders (1891)
Seneca, On Benefits, tr. Aubrey Stewart (1887)
Seneca, Minor Dialogues, tr. Aubrey Stewart (1889)
Spinoza, Ethics, tr. R. H. M. Elwes (1883)
The Buddha, Dhammapada, tr. F. Max Muller (1881)
Thoreau, Walden (1854)