recommend me some aphoristic texts that are free

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so playing with new ipod and realized that the note browsing is perfect for, e.g., the investigations, fragments of heraclitus (both of which i've put on already) etc.

what else should i grab, etext wise, that works well for casual concentrated thought on a train?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 22 September 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

Maybe Pepys's diary? It's at Gutenberg.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

I know not of this "ipod" but you might like La Rochefoucauld: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9105

I was going to recommend Flaubert's "Dictionary of Received Ideas", which was once given to me by a fellow ILBer and which I value very highly, but I don't know where you'd find that for free, sadly.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

The Art of War

― I'm a Problem for Anthony Blair (noodle vague), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

Devil's Dictionary is out there, at least.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 September 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

oooh... the prince!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 23 September 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

Aphorismsv I and II by The Don here: http://www.donpaterson.com/journalism.html

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Saturday, 24 September 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1570948,00.html#article_continue

I enjoyed these recent pensées of Houellebecq, but perhaps you have to be French to get away with such stuff.

― All Bunged Up (Jake Proudlock), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

― SRH (Skrik), Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

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