Anything about Greek Deities
Greek Theogony, by Hesiod, 700 BCE, Athens, Mythology
Anything about Scheherazade
Arabian Nights, by various authors, 1000
Anything about the Great Khan
Marvels of the world, by Marco Polo, 1300, Venice
Anything about the Black Death
Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio
Let those who...
Clermont speech, by Pope Urban II, 1095
True nobility
Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, 1400, England
Abandon all hope
The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri, 1321, Florence, epic poem
Band of brother
Henriad monologues, by William Shakespeare, 1600, England
Safer to be feared than loved
The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1530, Florence, political treatise
Heart and stomach...
Speech against the Spanish Armada, by Elizabeth I, 1588, England
Tilting at Windmills
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605, Spain, satirical novel
Nasty, brutish, and short
Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes, 1651, England, political treatise
Better to reign in Hell than serve...
Paradise Lost, by John Milton, 1667, England, Epic Poem
All men are created equal
Declaration of independence, by Thomas Jefferson, 1776, USA
What does it demand?
What is the Third Estate, by Abbe Sieyes, 1789, France, pamphlet
Man is born free...
The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762, France,
political treatise
Anything that insists "all is for the best
Candide, by Voltaire, 1759, France, satirical novella
Life, Liberty, Happiness, Possessions
Second Treatise on Government, John Locke, 1689, England, political treatise
From whom the bell tolls
No man is an island, by John Donne, 1624, England, poem
Royal affairs
Heptameron, by Marguerite, 1588, France/Spain, Story collection
You have no notion of such a...
Utopia, by Thomas Moore, 1516, England, philosophical treatise
"Noli me tangere
Whoso list to Hunt, by Thomas Wyatt, 1525, England, sonnet
Cogito ergo sum
Discourse on Method, by Rene Descartes, 1637, France, philosophical treatise
It is so easy not to be of age
What is enlightenment? by Immanuel Kant, 1784, HRE, philosophical essay
Conversation with St.Augustine
Secret, by Petrarch, 1342, Florence, Philosophical treatise
Assiduous questioning
Sic et Non, by Pierre Abelard, 1120, France, religious treatise