The core teachings

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

1515

Book of common prayer

Church of England

1537

Pensées

Blaise Pascal

1670

Imitation of Christ

Thomas à Kempis

1568

Братья Карамазовы

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1880

Summa Theologica

Thomas Aquinas

1467

Apologia pro vita sua

John Henry Newman

1860

Mishneh Torah (Codification of Talmudic laws)

Moses Maimonides

1470