Gareth Harney Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Gareth Harney on X
Historian and author celebrating the endless wonders of the Roman world. 'For these Romans I set no bounds in space or time, but have given empire without end.'
Friendship
Marcus Tullius CiceroGareth Harney'Few perceive what solitude really is, and how far it extends. For a crowd is not company; their faces are but a gallery of pictures; their talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.' - Francis Bacon (Of Friendship) https://t.co/Nei2sSBMFT
Paperback, 2002
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There Is Nothing Either Good or Bad, But Thinking Makes It So.: A Quote from Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Sam DiegoGareth HarneyStoicism in Hamlet. 'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.' (Hamlet, II.ii) https://t.co/HVqL2VQAd4
Paperback, 2019
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Meditations: With Selected Correspondence
Marcus AureliusGareth HarneyIncredibly excited to reach my Marcus Aurelius chapter. Reply with one of your favourite 'Meditations' - I know it's impossible to choose. I'll start: 'Life is like warfare. A brief campaign in an alien land. And after the fame, oblivion.' (2.17) https://t.co/PHnjUbNmbA
Paperback, 2011
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Power: A New Social Analysis
Bertrand RussellGareth Harney'Next to enjoying ourselves, the greatest pleasure is in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or more generally, in the acquisition of power.' - Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928) https://t.co/6BsQkkGBRM
Paperback, 2004
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Crowds and Power
Elias CanettiGareth Harney'In a way the coin is our superior. Its metal secures 'eternal' existence for it; except by fire, it can scarcely be destroyed. A coin does not grow; it issues ready-made from the mint and should remain as it then is; it should never change.' - Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power https://t.co/quRPWcc1k4
Paperback, 1984
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Of a Happy Life: De Vita Beata
SenecaGareth Harney'I demand of myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better than the bad.' - Seneca (De Vita Beata 'On the Happy Life') https://t.co/jCWn8HcErv
Hardcover, Large Print, 2020
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Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Marcus AureliusGareth HarneyCaptain John Smith, of Pocahontas fame, carried just two books with him to the New World: Machiavelli's 'Art of War', and the 'Meditations' of Marcus Aurelius. https://t.co/ZRcZsHATXS
Paperback, 2019
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Meditations
Marcus AureliusGareth HarneyIncredibly excited to reach my Marcus Aurelius chapter. Reply with one of your favourite 'Meditations' - I know it's impossible to choose. I'll start: 'Life is like warfare. A brief campaign in an alien land. And after the fame, oblivion.' (2.17) https://t.co/PHnjUbNmbA
Paperback, 2003
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History of the Peloponnesian War
ThucydidesGareth Harney3) It soon became apparent that they had found the tomb of the legendary Spartan general Brasidas - not just a key figure in Thucydides' monumental history of the Peloponnesian War - but a nemesis of Thucydides himself, who was an Athenian general before writing his histories.. https://t.co/6QRTXxB9dl
Paperback, 1998
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Sceptical Essays
Bertrand RussellGareth Harney'Next to enjoying ourselves, the greatest pleasure is in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or more generally, in the acquisition of power.' - Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928) https://t.co/6BsQkkGBRM
Paperback, 2004
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