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"The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism." - C.S. Lewis, On the Reading of Old Books
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- Aeneid, The
- Agamemnon
- America, Democracy in
- Ancient Mariner, Rime of the
- Animals, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in
- Antigone
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Apology (Plato)
- Areopagitica
- Articles of Confederation
- As You Like It
- Atlantis, New
- Aulis, Iphigenia at
- Bacchae, The
- Bible, The Holy
- Blood in Animals, On the Motion of the Heart and
- Bodies, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly
- Caesar, Julius
- Canterbury Tales
- Choephori, The
- City of God, The
- Civil Government, Concerning
- Civilization and its Discontents
- Cleopatra, Antony and
- Comedy, The Divine
- Concerning Civil Government
- Confederation, Articles of
- Confessions (Augustine)
- Constitution of the United States
- Contract, The Social
- Crito
- Declaration of Independence
- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Democracy in America
- Demonstration, On Geometrical
- Descent of Man, The
- Discontents, Civilization and its
- Discourse on Method
- Divine Comedy, The
- Emma
- Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, An
- Essays (Montaigne)
- Ethics, Nicomachean
- Eumenides, The
- Faust
- Federalist Papers
- Frogs, The
- Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
- Furies, The
- Geometrical Demonstration, On
- God, The City of
- Government, Concerning Civil
- Government, Second Treatise on
- Government, Two Treatises on
- Grecians and Romans, Lives of the Noble
- Gulliver's Travels
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Heart and Blood in Animals, On the Motion of the
- Heavenly Spheres, On the Revolutions of the
- Hippolytus
- Histories (Herodotus)
- History of the Peloponnesian War
- History of the Persian War
- Human Understanding, An Inquiry Concerning
- Iliad
- Immortality, Ode on Intimations of
- Impostor, The
- Independence, Declaration of
- Inequality, On the Origin of
- Inferno
- Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, An
- Intimations of Immortality, Ode on
- Iphigenia at Aulis
- Jones, Tom
- Julius Caesar
- King Lear
- Law, The (Hippocrates)
- Laws, Spirit of
- Lear, King
- Leviathan
- Libation Bearers, The
- Liberty, On
- Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
- Lost Time, In Search of
- Ode on Intimations of Immortality
