The Analects Assistant

Answers questions on Plato's Republic: justice, the ideal city and the allegory of the cave, quoting Benjamin Jowett's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on Machiavelli's The Prince, on gaining and keeping power, quoting W. K. Marriott's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

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 Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan: the state of nature, the social contract and sovereign power, quoting the 1651 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

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 Benjamin Franklin's The Way to Wealth: Poor Richard's sayings on industry, frugality, debt and prudence, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the passage.

Answers questions on Henry George's Progress and Poverty: why poverty persists as wealth grows, rent, wages and the taxation of land values, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.