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The Discourses of Epictetus (Everyman)
1.  The Discourses of Epictetus (Everyman) by Epictetus
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  "A tough call between this and Marcus Aurelius or Seneca for stoic writing, but Epictetus is great in many ways."
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An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Oxford World's Classics)
2.  An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Oxford World's Classics) by David Hume
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  "Hume was an intellectual giant of his time and reads perfectly well today. Does not hide behind inscrutable technical language as in the cases of say Hegel or Kant."
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The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics)
3.  The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
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  "Entirely readable. The standard treatise on ethics for almost 2000 years."
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History of Western Philosophy (Routledge Classics)
4.  History of Western Philosophy (Routledge Classics) by Bertrand Russell
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  "Decades old yet still a useful guide to the philosophical landscape up until the turn of the 20th century."
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The Reasons of Love
5.  The Reasons of Love by Harry G. Frankfurt
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  "An elegantly written, short piece by a leading contemporary philosophy."
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Routledge Classics)
6.  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Routledge Classics) by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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  "Deemed flawed by its own author, (having originally thought it represented the 'solution' to philosophy), this mind-bending work of metaphysics is recommended."
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Complete Works
7.  Complete Works by Plato
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  "Everything else is just a footnote to this apparently..."
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