Chinese Classics: The Analects of Confucius The Great Learning of Confucius The Doctrine of the Mean of Tsze-sze The Works of Mencius The Writings of Chuang Tzu The Tâo Te Ching [Legge] Others: Kahlil Gibran's The Forerunner Kahlil Gibran's The Madman Thomas Jefferson's Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume