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Answers questions on Seneca's Minor Dialogues: anger, the shortness of life, tranquillity of mind, the happy life and clemency, quoting Aubrey Stewart's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the dialogue.

Answers questions on Camille Flammarion's Astronomy for Amateurs: the sky, the Moon, the Sun, the planets, comets and the stars, quoting Frances A. Welby's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Plato's Symposium: the speeches on love by Phaedrus, Aristophanes, Agathon and Socrates, Diotima and Alcibiades, quoting Benjamin Jowett's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the speech.

Answers questions on Aristotle's Politics: the household and the city, citizenship, constitutions, revolutions and the best state, quoting William Ellis's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on Lucretius's On the Nature of Things: atoms and void, the soul, why not to fear death and the origins of the world, quoting William Ellery Leonard's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy: Fortune, true happiness, evil, providence and free will, quoting H. R. James's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on Hendrik van Loon's The Story of Mankind: Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the revolutions, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on H. G. Wells's A Short History of the World, from the origins of life and the first civilisations to the First World War, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on David Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: impressions and ideas, cause and effect, miracles and scepticism, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.

Answers questions on John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women: equality in law, marriage, education and work, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism: the greatest happiness principle, higher and lower pleasures and justice, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle: the Galapagos, Tierra del Fuego, South America and coral reefs, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Clausewitz's On War: what war is, friction, the relation of war to policy, attack and defence, quoting J. J. Graham's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on Suetonius's Lives of the Twelve Caesars, from Julius Caesar and Augustus to Caligula, Nero and Domitian, quoting Alexander Thomson's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the life.

Answers questions on Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War: Pericles, the plague of Athens, the Melian Dialogue and Sicily, quoting Richard Crawley's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on Augustine's Confessions: the stolen pears, his conversion in the garden and his reflections on time and memory, quoting Edward Bouverie Pusey's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on the Dhammapada, the Buddhist verses on the mind, anger, craving and the path, quoting F. Max Müller's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on the Bhagavad Gita: Arjuna's dilemma, duty, action without attachment and devotion, quoting Sir Edwin Arnold's verse translation (The Song Celestial) from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Francis Bacon's Essays: short counsels on studies, truth, friendship, ambition, revenge and other topics, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the essay.

Answers questions on William James's Pragmatism: the pragmatic method, the pragmatic theory of truth and the squirrel dispute, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the lecture.

Answers questions on Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto: class struggle, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, and the measures it proposes, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.

Answers questions on Einstein's popular account of relativity: simultaneity, the Lorentz transformation, space-time and gravitation, quoting Robert W. Lawson's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.

Answers questions on Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, his defence of the French Revolution and natural rights against Burke, quoting The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume II from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the part.

Answers questions on Thoreau's essay Civil Disobedience, on conscience and resisting unjust government, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the passage.