item: #1 of 5
          id: 1232
      author: Machiavelli, Niccolò
       title: The Prince
        date: None
       words: 49765
      flesch: 57
     summary: This has been figuratively taught to princes by ancient writers, who describe how Achilles and many other princes of old were given to the Centaur Chiron to nurse, who brought them up in his discipline; which means solely that, as they had for a teacher one who was half beast and half man, so it is necessary for a prince to know how to make use of both natures, and that one without the other is not durable. Desiring therefore to present myself to your Magnificence with some testimony of my devotion towards you, I have not found among my possessions anything which I hold more dear than, or value so much as, the knowledge of the actions of great men, acquired by long experience in contemporary affairs, and a continual study of antiquity; which, having reflected upon it with great and prolonged diligence, I now send, digested into a little volume, to your Magnificence.
    keywords: affairs; alexander; arms; army; castruccio; city; country; duke; enemy; fear; florence; florentines; fortune; france; friends; good; having; hold; italy; king; lucca; machiavelli; man; men; messer; order; people; pisa; pope; power; prince; soldiers; state; things; time; war; way; wish
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        item: #2 of 5
          id: 14988
      author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
       title: Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth
        date: None
       words: 182249
      flesch: 67
     summary: These were all great men. The consuls maintained, with the greatest energy, that rule which so much conduces to the power of our nobles and great men, that the acts of the commons of the people shall not be binding, unless the authority of the patricians has approved them.
    keywords: account; air; appears; authority; bear; bodies; body; book; case; cicero; city; commonwealth; country; day; death; deity; desire; discourse; divine; earth; epicurus; evil; eyes; fear; fire; form; fortune; glory; gods; good; government; great; greek; grief; heat; human; jupiter; justice; kind; king; knowledge; laws; life; look; lust; lælius; man; manner; means; men; mind; miserable; motion; nature; opinion; order; pain; parts; people; philosophers; philosophy; place; plato; pleasure; point; power; present; public; question; reason; regard; rest; right; scipio; sea; sense; soul; speak; stars; state; stoics; subject; sun; things; thought; time; truth; universe; use; virtue; war; way; wisdom; words; world
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        item: #3 of 5
          id: 1750
      author: Plato
       title: Laws
        date: None
       words: 239976
      flesch: 67
     summary: It comes from the study of ourselves and other men: from moderation and experience: from reflection on circumstances: from the pursuit of high aims: from a right use of the opportunities of life. For no one either in life or after death has any right to deprive other men of the sustenance which mother earth provides for them.
    keywords: age; athenian; body; care; case; children; citizens; city; class; cleinias; country; day; death; education; evil; father; general; gods; good; great; guardians; honour; human; judges; justice; know; law; laws; legislator; life; magistrates; man; manner; matters; mean; megillus; men; mind; music; nature; number; order; pay; person; place; plato; pleasure; power; proceed; property; public; reason; republic; right; saying; second; slave; sort; soul; speak; state; stranger; things; think; time; truth; use; view; virtue; war; way; women; words; work; world; years
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        item: #4 of 5
          id: 3207
      author: Hobbes, Thomas
       title: Leviathan
        date: None
       words: 214238
      flesch: 57
     summary: And Of Honour And Order Lastly, considering what values men are naturally apt to set upon themselves; what respect they look for from others; and how little they value other men; from whence continually arise amongst them, Emulation, Quarrells, Factions, and at last Warre, to the destroying of one another, and diminution of their strength against a Common Enemy; It is necessary that there be Lawes of Honour, and a publique rate of the worth of such men as have deserved, or are able to deserve well of the Common-wealth; and that there be force in the hands of some or other, to put those Lawes in execution. For Reason, in this sense, is nothing but Reckoning (that is, Adding and Substracting) of the Consequences of generall names agreed upon, for the Marking and Signifying of our thoughts; I say Marking them, when we reckon by our selves; and Signifying, when we demonstrate, or approve our reckonings to other men.
    keywords: actions; apostles; assembly; authority; bee; beleeve; bodies; body; cause; chapter; christ; christian; church; civill; command; concerning; contrary; counsell; covenant; crime; day; death; doctrine; doe; earth; end; eternall; evill; faith; god; gods; good; government; hath; hee; himselfe; holy; honour; jesus; judge; justice; kingdome; kings; law; lawes; liberty; life; lord; man; manifest; manner; mans; men; moses; names; naturall; nature; obedience; obey; onely; opinion; people; person; place; pope; power; present; prophets; publique; punishment; reason; religion; right; saviour; scripture; second; seeing; sense; set; soveraign; spirit; subject; testament; thing; thought; time; true; use; warre; way; wealth; wee; whatsoever; whereof; words; world; worship
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        item: #5 of 5
          id: 33111
      author: Engels, Friedrich
       title: The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
        date: None
       words: 65209
      flesch: 61
     summary: We are here confronted by a series of family forms that are in direct contradiction with those that were currently regarded as alone prevailing. Hence there was less temptation for a Spartan to hold intercourse with other women.
    keywords: barbarism; brothers; case; children; civilization; class; classes; constitution; council; day; development; division; existence; family; father; female; form; gens; gentes; gentile; german; group; history; intercourse; labor; land; law; man; marriage; means; members; monogamy; morgan; mother; nations; new; order; people; place; power; production; property; public; right; roman; rule; slaves; society; stage; system; time; tribes; wealth; wife; women
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