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Lesser Hippias is thought to be one of Plato's early works. Socrates matches wits with an arrogant polymath, who is also a smug literary critic. Hippias believes that Homer can be taken at face value, and he also thinks that Achilles may be believed when he says he hates liars, whereas Odysseus' resourceful...

"The Menexenus" is a Socratic dialogue of Plato, Plato (424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.  Translated by Benjamin Jowett.

Hippocrates of Kos (c. 460 – c. 370 BC), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Greece), and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. Translated by Francis Adams   

Sons and Lovers is a 1913 novel by the English writer D. H. Lawrence, originally published by B.W. Huebsch Publishers. The Modern Library placed it ninth on their list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century. While the novel initially received a lukewarm critical reception, along with allegations...

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known as Lord Byron, was an English poet, peer, politician, and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Hattie Tyng Griswold (1842 - 1909) was a 19th-century American author and poet from Massachusetts.

"Les Fleurs du mal" est le titre d'un recueil de poèmes en vers de Charles Baudelaire, englobant la quasi-totalité de sa production poétique, de 1840 jusqu'à sa mort survenue fin août 1867. Charles Baudelaire est un poète français. Baudelaire est né à Paris le 9 avril 1821...

The Minotaur, a Short Story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer.

Euthydemus, written c. 384 BC, is a dialogue by Plato which satirizes what Plato presents as the logical fallacies of the Sophists. In it, Socrates describes to his friend Crito a visit he and various youths paid to two brothers, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, both of whom were prominent Sophists from...

Phaedo also known to ancient readers as "On The Soul", is one of the best-known dialogues of Plato's middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The philosophical subject of the dialogue is the immortality of the soul. Plato (428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a...

Johann Wolfgang Goethe né le 28 août 1749 à Francfort et mort le 22 mars 1832 (à 82 ans) à Weimar, est un romancier, dramaturge, poète, théoricien de l'art et homme d'État allemand, passionné par les sciences, notamment l'optique, la géologie et la botanique, et grand administrateur. Traduction de l’allemand par Sigismond Sklower.  

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"Fare Formazione con i giochi d'aula" è il libro indispensabile per ogni formatore. La formazione negli ultimi decenni si è molto cambiata, ed è uscita dai classici schemi e ambienti delle organizzazioni aziendali e viene utilizzata sempre più per avviare processi di cambiamento e crescita...

L'epopea dei Mille è stata studiata e raccontata da molti autori e in diversi testi. Nel 1880 comparivano le "Noterelle d'uno dei Mille" edite dopo vent'anni, pubblicate da Giuseppe Cesare Abba, poi ricomparse con il titolo con il quale ancora oggi sono conosciute: "Da Quarto al Volturno". L'autore Giuseppe...

"Le Discours sur les passions de l'amour" traite essentiellement de l'amour-passion. Blaise Pascal, né le 19 juin 1623 à Clairmont (aujourd'hui Clermont-Ferrand), en Auvergne, mort le 19 août 1662 à Paris, est un mathématicien, physicien, inventeur, philosophe, moraliste et théologien français.