14 best-selling classics books like Selected Letters by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Selected Letters

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

4.00

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief su…

"Nemo est qui tibi sapientius suadere possit te ipso: numquam labere, si te audies. ( Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you'll never go wrong. )"

-Marcus Tullius Cicero, Selected Letters

If you liked the classics plot in Selected Letters by Marcus Tullius Cicero , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Histories

By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more

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  • classics
  • history
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  • philosophy
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
"Hippocleides doesn't care."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"So much, then, for the fish."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."

-Herodotus, The Histories

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2. Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

4.28

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggl… read more

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  • roman
  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
"Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]"

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

"For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]"

-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

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3. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

3.88

Format: 1076 pages, Paperback

Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more

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  • history
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  • nonfiction
"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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4. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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5. Poetics

By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction
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6. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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  • literature
  • philosophy
  • classics
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7. Conversations of Socrates

By: Xenophon , Robin Waterfield , Hugh Tredennick

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him … read more

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  • ancient
  • ancient history
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8. The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Boethius , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
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9. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction

10. On the Shortness of Life

By: Seneca , Charles Desmond Nuttall Costa

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the im… read more

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11. The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Edna Hatlestad Hong , Howard Vincent Hong

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Soren Kierkegaard's radical and co… read more

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12. Letters from a Stoic

By: Seneca , Robin Campbell

4.75

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were… read more

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13. Conspirata (Cicero, #2)

By: Robert Harris

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

- Internationally bestselling author: "Imperium" was hailed as "quite possibly Harris's most accomp… read more

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14. Metamorphoses

By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney

3.99

Format: 240 pages,

Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more

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15. History of the Peloponnesian War

By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner

3.94

Format: 648 pages, Paperback

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more

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  • history
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  • ancient
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

16. Heroides

By: Ovid , Harold Isbell

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myt… read more

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17. The Agricola and The Germania

By: Tacitus , S.A. Handford , Harold Mattingly

3.94

Format: 229 pages,

The portrait of Tacitus' father-in-law, Agricola, is a eulogistic description of the career of the … read more

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18. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

-Plato, The Republic

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19. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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  • classics
"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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20. Selected Letters

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

4.00

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief su… read more

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  • history
  • classical studies
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  • philosophy
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
"Nemo est qui tibi sapientius suadere possit te ipso: numquam labere, si te audies. ( Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you'll never go wrong. )"

-Marcus Tullius Cicero, Selected Letters

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21. The Aeneid

By: Virgil

3.87

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more

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  • ancient
  • classics
"Death's brother, sleep."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"No help or hope of help existed."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

8 best-selling history books like Selected Letters by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The Histories

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4.01

Transform Your Habits

Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

Adrian Goldsworthy

4.28

Transform Your Habits

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Conversations of Socrates

Xenophon , Robin Waterfield , Hugh Tredennick

4.11

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15 Best classics books like History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Moses I. Finley, Rex Warner

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Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

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Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

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The Conquest of Gaul

S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius

4.11

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The Twelve Caesars

Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius

4.33

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