Epictetus (0055–0135)

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1. Charles William Eliot

   Author of The Apology, Phædo, and Crito of Plato; The Golden sayings of Epictetus; The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Elizabethan Drama, Volume I: Marlowe; Shakespeare, Sacred Writings, Volume I: Confucian; Hebrew; Christian (Part I)

2. Plutarch

   Author of The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Plutarch's Lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demostheses and Cicero,Cæsar and Antony, Plutarch-- Selected Lives and Essays (Classics Club (Cloth Hardcover))

3. Aristotle

   Author of Nicomachean Ethics, Poetics, On Man in the Universe (Classics Club)

4. Plato

   Author of The Symposium, Gorgias, Theaetetus

5. Will Durant

   Author of The Story of Philosophy, Our Oriental Heritage, The Age of Reason Begins

6. Seneca the Younger

   Author of On the shortness of life, Letters from a Stoic, Moral essays, Vol. I

7. Marcus Tullius Cicero

   Author of Selected Works, On the Good Life, The Nature of the Gods

8. Plotinus

   Author of The Essential Plotinus: Representative Treatises from the Enneads, Plotinus: Volume I, Porphyry on Plotinus, Ennead I (Loeb Classical Library No. 440), Plotinus: Volume VI, Ennead VI.1-5 (Loeb Classical Library No. 445)

9. Epictetus

   Author of Discourses 1,2, Discourses 3,4 / Handbook / Fragments

10. Richard Henry Dana

    Author of Two Years Before the Mast, Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After

11. Marcus Aurelius

    Author of Meditations, Marcus Aurelius and his times; the transition from paganism to Christianity, comprising Marcus Aurelius: Meditations; Lu, The communings with himself of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Emperor of Rome : together with his speeches and sayings

12. Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Author of Emerson's Essays, Essays and English Traits

13. Edmund Burke

    Author of On taste; On the sublime and beautiful; Reflections on the French revolution; A letter to a noble lord

14. Blaise Pascal

    Author of Pensées, Blaise Pascal: Thoughts; Letters; Minor Works

15. David Hume

    Author of A Treatise of Human Nature, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary

16. Tacitus

    Author of The Annals, The Annals & The Histories, Tacitus: Histories, Books I-III (Loeb Classical Library No. 111)

17. Quintilian

    Author of The Orator's Education, books 6-8 (Loeb Classical Library), The Orator's Education, books 3-5 (Loeb Classical Library), The orator's education, books 11-12

18. Miguel de Cervantes

    Author of Don Quixote [Part 1 of 2]

19. Saint Augustine

    Author of The Confessions of St. Augustine; The Imitation of Christ by Thomas À Kempis

20. Philo of Alexandria

    Author of Philo: Volume IX, Every Good Man is Free. On the Contemplative Life. On the Eternity of the World. Against Flaccus. Apol, Philo, Vol. I (Loeb Classical Library, No. 226)