World Literature

One should speak only when one may not remain silent; and then speak only of that which one has overcome—everything else is chatter, “literature,” lack of breeding. My writings speak only of my overcomings: “I” am in them, together with everything that was hostile to me, ego ipsissimus, indeed, even if a yet prouder expression be permitted, ego ipsissimum [”ego ipsissimus”: my very own self; “ego ipsissimum”: my innermost self].

From Nietzsche’s Preface to Mixed Opinions and Maxims (1886)

Note: Some of the following titles are linked to other websites

Aesop’s Fables

Francis Bacon

Matsuo Basho

A Buddhist Text

Diogenes of Sinope

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ecclesiastes

T. S. Eliot

Epictetus

Epicurus

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Robert Frost

Genesis (Ch.1-3)

Greek Tragedies
Aeschylus - Sophocles - Euripides

Hafiz - Persian Divan - Translations

Heraclitus

Ibn-e-Insha

Franz Kafka

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

H. L. Mencken

John Stuart Mill

Michel De Montaigne - Images

Nasadiya from Rig Veda

Plato’s Apology

Plato’s Symposium

Plutarch

Noon Meem Rashid

Rainer Maria Rilke

Schiller - Poems - Letters - Essays - Other

Shakespeare

Song of Songs

Tao te Ching

Rabindranath Tagore

Henry David Thoreau

Leo Tolstoy

Nauman Wazir

William Butler Yeats


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