Existentialism
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883
Nietzsche's poetic philosophy of the Übermensch and the death of God.
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Philosophy · Stoicism
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
The private notebook of a Roman emperor on virtue, duty and tranquility.
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- 180
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- Stoicism
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