/lit/ - Literature

>Erase the imagination. Stop the puppet impulse. Limit yourself to the present moment. Understand what happens to you or to others. Divide and separate the given object in its causal aspect and material. Think about your time later. The fault committed by that one, leave it there where it originated.

Aurelius

Leave this board immediately if you have not real ALL of the following:

HOMER: Iliad, Odyssey
AESCHYLUS: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides, Prometheus Bound
SOPHOCLES: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes, Ajax
THUCYDIDES: Peloponnesian War
EURIPIDES: Hippolytus, Bacchae
HERODOTUS: Histories
ARISTOPHANES: Clouds
PLATO (SOCRATES): Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus
ARISTOTLE: Poetics, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On Generation and Corruption, Politics, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals
EUCLID: Elements
LUCRETIUS: On the Nature of Things
PLUTARCH: Lycurgus, Solon
NICOMACHUS: Arithmetic
LAVOISIER: Elements of Chemistry
HARVEY: Motion of the Heart and Blood
THE BIBLE: New Testament only
ARISTOTLE: De Anima, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Categories
APOLLONIUS: Conics
VIRGIL: Aeneid
PLUTARCH: “Caesar,” “Cato the Younger,” “Antony,” “Brutus”
EPICTETUS: Discourses, Manual
TACITUS: Annals
PTOLEMY: Almagest
PLOTINUS: The Enneads
AUGUSTINE: Confessions
MAIMONIDES: Guide for the Perplexed
ST. ANSELM: Proslogium
AQUINAS: Summa Theologica
DANTE: Divine Comedy
CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales
MACHIAVELLI: The Prince, Discourses
KEPLER: Epitome IV
RABELAIS: Gargantua and Pantagruel
PALESTRINA: Missa Papae Marcelli
MONTAIGNE: Essays
VIETE: Introduction to the Analytical Art
BACON: Novum Organum
DESCARTES: Geometry, Discourse on Method
PASCAL: Generation of Conic Sections
GALILEO: Two New Sciences
HOBBES: Leviathan
DESCARTES: Meditations, Rules for the Direction of the Mind
MILTON: Paradise Lost
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD: Maximes
LA FONTAINE: Fables
PASCAL: Pensees
HUYGENS: Treatise on Light, On the Movement of Bodies by Impact
ELIOT: Middlemarch
SPINOZA: Theological-Political Treatise
LOCKE: Complete Works
RACINE: Phaedre
NEWTON: Principia Mathematica
KEPLER: Epitome IV
LEIBNIZ: Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, Essay On Dynamics, Philosophical Essays, Principles of Nature and Grace
HUME: Complete Works
ROUSSEAU: Complete Works
MOLIERE: Le Misanthrope
ADAM SMITH: Wealth of Nations
KANT: Complete Works
JANE AUSTEN: Pride and Prejudice
DEDEKIND: Essay on the Theory of Numbers
Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States of America
HAMILTON, JAY AND MADISON: The Federalist
WORDSWORTH: The Two Part Prelude of 1799
GOETHE: Complete works
DARWIN: Origin of Species
HEGEL: Phenomenology of Mind, “Logic” (from the Encyclopedia)
LOBACHEVSKY: Theory of Parallels
TOCQUEVILLE: Democracy in America
LINCOLN: Selected Speeches
KIERKEGAARD: Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling
WAGNER: Tristan and Isolde
MARX: Complete Works
MELVILLE: Benito Cereno
NIETZSCHE: Beyond Good and Evil
FREUD: Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
HEIDEGGER: Basic Writings
EINSTEIN: Selected papers
FLAUBERT: Un Coeur Simple
Poems by: Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Valery, Rimbaud

>wake up
>begin reading
>12 hours later
>still reading
anyone read and do literally nothing else, most of the time? i feel completely lost if i dont have a book desu

>while we study stoicism, chad is out there fucking our oneitis

>>13460170
This book is pretty motivational to me, if you try to think about how you can use the weird things he says in your day to day life. I find myself often repeating phrases and things mentioned in the book just accidentally when I'm struggling with something.
>Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look
Simple but memorable
>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/219846-men-seek-retreats-for-themselves-houses-in-the-country-sea-shores
I like that one a lot, mainly the first section up until "give to thyself this retreat, and renew thyself;"

The part that really hits me is when he speaks about how you should always try your hardest and if you do there is nothing to be embarrassed about even if you fail. The only reason you should be ashamed is if you know you didn't give it your all. I've heard also Miyamoto musashi say something similar and it made me do a big think
I could go on with some other parts but I'm not really sure if this is helping you any, the gist is that it's packed full of memorable mantra that can help you through tough times.