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Thomas Aquinas, Whether Virtue is a Habit
Aristotle on Friendship, from the Nicomachean Ethics
Excerpt from Aristophanes, Clouds
Aristophanes speech on love in Plato's Symposium
Buddha's Parable of the Strawberry
Ralph Waldo Emerson, On Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Oversoul
The Chariot of the Soul image in Plato's Phaedrus
Excerpt from the Cloud of Unknowing
"At the High School" - excerpt from Gandhi's autobiography
"On Self-Restraint" - excerpt from Gandhi's autobiography
Gandhi on education as spiritual training
The Flood Narrative from the Epic of Gilgamesh
Arion and the Dolphi - from Herodotus' Histories
Croesus and the Oracle - from Herodotus' Histories
The Discussion of Regimes - from Herodotus' Histories
The Nemesis of Croesus - from Herodotus' Histories
Solon and Croesus - Herodotus' Histories
C.S. Lewis, "The Empty Universe"
Machiavelli, The Prince Ch. 15
Machiavelli, The Prince Ch. 16
Machiavelli, The Prince Ch. 17
Machiavelli, The Prince Ch. 18
Machiavelli, The Prince Ch. 25
J.Moussaieff Masson, Survival of the Fittest
J.Moussaieff Masson, Compassion across Species
J.Moussaieff Masson, Culture and the Concept of Beauty
J.Moussaieff Masson, Do animals wage war?
J.Moussaieff Masson, The Narrative Urge
J.Moussaieff Masson, Reveling in Freedom
J.Moussaieff Masson, Too Noble for Animals
J.Moussaieff Masson, Torture: The Cat and the Mouse
Nietzsche, On Love of the Neighbour
The Ring of Gyges, Plato's Republic
Shakespeare, Henry V, The St. Crispian's Day speech
Shakespeare, Henry V, The King's prayer to the God of Battles
Shakespeare, Richard II, excerpt of renunciation
Shakespeare, Richard II, The world as a prison
Shakespeare, Richard II, Comparative speeches
Shakespeare, Richard II, The gardening metaphor
