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 William Strunk's The Elements of Style (1918): rules of usage, principles of composition and words often misused, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the rule.

Answers questions on Goethe's Theory of Colours: physiological colours, coloured shadows and the effects of colour on the mind, quoting Charles Eastlake's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the paragraph.

Answers questions on Arthur Wesley Dow's Composition: line, notan (dark and light) and colour as the structure of art, with exercises, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.

Answers questions on Leonardo da Vinci's Treatise on Painting: perspective, light and shade, proportion, colour and figures in motion, quoting John Francis Rigaud's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.