This e-book brings together important and influential works by celebrated scholars from East to West into a single collection. Contents: Sun Tzu The Art of War Confucius Analects Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching Plato Early: The Apology of Socrates, Charmides, Crito, Euthyphro, Ion, Laches, Lysis, Menexenus Middle: The Republic, The Allegory of the Cave, Symposium, Meno, Phaedo Late: Critias Aristotle Poetics Parva Naturalia Sense and Sensibilia On Memory On Sleep On Dreams On Divination in Sleep On Length and Shortness of Life On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration Marcus Aurelius The Meditations Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince Thomas More Utopia Francis Bacon New Atlantis