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    Tao Te Ching 老子, Yang Peng, Jordi Fibla, James Legge · 1842
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 (61 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Philosophy
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    Meditations Marcus Aurelius · 1626
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (147 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Stoicism
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    The banquet of Plato Plato · 1559
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (27 ratings)
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    The Book of Tea Okakura Kakuzō · 1900
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 (13 ratings)
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    Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1921
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 (7 ratings)
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    Platonis Apologia Socratis Plato · 1675
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (33 ratings)
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    The conquest of bread. by P. Kropotkin. Peter Kropotkin · 1892
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (15 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Political philosophy
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    Common Sense Thomas Paine, Thomas Paine · 1776
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (11 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Modern history Political philosophy
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    Mutual Aid Peter Kropotkin · 1891
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 (6 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Political philosophy Politics & society Sociology
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    Roads to Freedom Bertrand Russell · 1918
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 (3 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Political philosophy Politics & society
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    Walden Henry David Thoreau · 1854
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.9 (36 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Philosophy Nature & environment Classics
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    Phaedo Plato · 1713
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (9 ratings)
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    The Servile State Hilaire Belloc · 1912
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 (2 ratings)
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    Machiavelli Niccolò Machiavelli · 1515
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.9 (121 ratings)
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    A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Henry David Thoreau · 1849
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Philosophy Travel writing Nature & environment
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    The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia Samuel Johnson · 1759
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 ratings)
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    The Religion of Nature Delineated William Wollaston, William Wollaston · 1722
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 (1 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Philosophy Ethics
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    On Liberty John Stuart Mill · 1859
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.9 (10 ratings)
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    The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill · 1873
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (4 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Philosophy Biography & memoir Memoir
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    The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle · 1558
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.8 (24 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Philosophy Ethics Classics
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    Democracy and Education John Dewey · 1916
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (2 ratings)
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    Tusculan Disputations Cicero · 1539
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (2 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Philosophy Stoicism Ethics
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    Unto This Last John Ruskin · 1860
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 (1 ratings)
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    Crito Plato · 1833
    ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.8 (5 ratings)
    EN Free ebook Philosophy Ethics Classics
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