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For not observing the state of another man's soul, scarce was ever any man known to be unhappy.
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Few people have ever been unhappy because they didn't judge someone else's character.
From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Stoicism
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The Discourses of Epictetus
Epictetus
The Enchiridion
Epictetus
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laertius
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laertius
Dialogues and Letters
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca's Morals
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Epictetus
The Teaching of Epictetus
Epictetus

The art of living
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
As a Man Thinketh
James Allen
Essays: First Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius
The Essays
Francis Bacon
The Discourses of Epictetus
Epictetus
The Enchiridion
Epictetus
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
The Art of Money Getting
P. T. Barnum
The Game of Life and How to Play It
Florence Scovel Shinn

Ancient Greece and Rome
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The Odyssey
Homer
The Republic
Plato
Ethics
Aristotle
Apology
Plato
Metamorphoses
Ovid
The Iliad
Homer
Aesop's Fables
Aesop
The Aeneid
Virgil
Symposium
Plato
Phaedo
Plato
Poetics
Aristotle

Eastern philosophy
The Analects of Confucius
Confucius
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
Bhagavad Gita
Vyasa
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
The Dhammapada
The Buddha
The Upanishads
Vedic Rishis
Chuang Tzu
Zhuangzi
The Doctrine of the Mean
Zisi
The Great Learning
Zengzi
The Works of Mencius
Mencius
The Kaushitaki Upanishad
Vedic Rishis
Vedic Hymns
Vedic Rishis
Vedic Hymns
Vedic Rishis

Faith and doubt
The Confessions of Saint Augustine
Augustine of Hippo
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius
The City of God
Augustine of Hippo
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
Pascal's Pensées
Blaise Pascal
Twilight of the Idols
Friedrich Nietzsche
Revelations of Divine Love
Julian of Norwich
Revelations of Divine Love
Julian of Norwich
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Émile Durkheim
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Émile Durkheim

Politics and power
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Republic
Plato
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift
Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Second Treatise of Government
John Locke
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
Utopia
Thomas More
Utopia
Thomas More

Freedom and equality
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
The Subjection of Women
John Stuart Mill
Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington
Darkwater
W. E. B. Du Bois
Darkwater
W. E. B. Du Bois
The History of Mary Prince
Mary Prince
The History of Mary Prince
Mary Prince

The Enlightenment
The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift
Second Treatise of Government
John Locke
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
Candide
Voltaire
Ethics
Benedict de Spinoza
Ethics
Benedict de Spinoza
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft

Modern thought
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
The Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James
Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud
Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud
Twilight of the Idols
Friedrich Nietzsche
Pragmatism
William James
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Émile Durkheim
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Émile Durkheim

Memoirs and biographies
The Confessions of Saint Augustine
Augustine of Hippo
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Mohandas K. Gandhi
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Mary White Rowlandson
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Mary White Rowlandson
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
De Profundis
Oscar Wilde
De Profundis
Oscar Wilde
Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington

Novels and stories
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Candide
Voltaire
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf

Gothic and uncanny
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
The Call of Cthulhu
H. P. Lovecraft
The Call of Cthulhu
H. P. Lovecraft
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole

Science fiction
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Flatland
Edwin A. Abbott
R.U.R.
Karel Čapek
R.U.R.
Karel Čapek
From the Earth to the Moon
Jules Verne
Erewhon
Samuel Butler
Erewhon
Samuel Butler
New Atlantis
Francis Bacon
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne

Epics and legends
The Odyssey
Homer
The Iliad
Homer
The Aeneid
Virgil
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
Beowulf
Anonymous