The shelf
Hand-picked classics in the public domain. Read a snippet, then distill it into your own wisdom card.
Marcus Aurelius · 180
A Roman emperor's private notebook on how to live.
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Laozi · 400 BCE
Eighty-one short verses on the way of nature.
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Henry David Thoreau · 1854
Two years in a cabin by a pond, with the whole world to think about.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841
The original manifesto for thinking for yourself.
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Sun Tzu · 500 BCE
Strategy, restraint, and the wisdom of winning without fighting.
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Charles Dickens · 1859
Love, sacrifice, and revolution across two restless capitals.
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More titles coming. All works above are in the public domain. Sources credited inside each book.