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Christianity

Bible (Berean Standard Bible) Public Domain — 31,086 passages

Judaism

Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) Sefaria, CC-BY

Mishneh Torah (Human Dispositions, Repentance) Sefaria, CC-BY

Babylonian Talmud (selected passages) Sefaria, CC-BY

Proverbs (Mishlei) Sefaria, CC-BY-NC — 915 verses

Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) Sefaria, CC-BY-NC — 222 verses

Zohar (selected sections) Sefaria, CC0 — 3,895 passages

Islam

Quran (Sahih International English Translation) alquran.cloud API, Open Access — 6,236 verses

Hinduism

Bhagavad Gita (The Song Celestial) — trans. Edwin Arnold Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

The Upanishads — trans. Swami Paramananda Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali — trans. Charles Johnston Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Sufism

The Masnavi — Rumi, trans. E.H. Whinfield Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Poems from the Divan of Hafiz — trans. Gertrude Bell Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 375 passages

The Confessions of Al Ghazzali Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 223 passages

Religious and Moral Teachings of Al-Ghazzali Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 437 passages

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — trans. Edward FitzGerald Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 261 passages

Sikhism

Japji Sahib — Guru Nanak Dev Ji BaniDB, NPOSL-3.0

Anand Sahib — Guru Amar Das Ji BaniDB, NPOSL-3.0

Rehras Sahib BaniDB, NPOSL-3.0

Sukhmani Sahib — Guru Arjan Dev Ji BaniDB, NPOSL-3.0

Buddhism

Dhammapada — trans. F. Max Muller Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Dhammapada — trans. Bhikkhu Sujato SuttaCentral, CC0

The Diamond Sutra — trans. William Gemmell Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

The Gospel of Buddha — Paul Carus Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

The Light of Asia — Edwin Arnold Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Pali Canon Suttas (Metta, Kalama, Satipatthana, etc.) — Bhikkhu Sujato SuttaCentral, CC0

Taoism

Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

The Writings of Chuang Tzu — trans. James Legge Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Zen Buddhism

Essays in Zen Buddhism (First Series) — D.T. Suzuki Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

The Religion of the Samurai — Kaiten Nukariya Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Stoic Philosophy

Meditations — Marcus Aurelius Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Enchiridion — Epictetus Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Discourses — Epictetus Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Minor Dialogues — Seneca Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

On Benefits — Seneca Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 1,160 passages

Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency — Seneca Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 1,516 passages

Greek Philosophy

The Republic — Plato Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Nicomachean Ethics — Aristotle Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Symposium — Plato Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Apology — Plato Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Politics: A Treatise on Government — Aristotle Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 1,285 passages

Existentialism

Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Beyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Nietzsche Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Either/Or — Soren Kierkegaard Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

The World as Will and Idea — Arthur Schopenhauer Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

The Joyful Wisdom (La Gaya Scienza) — Friedrich Nietzsche Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 1,346 passages

The Birth of Tragedy — Friedrich Nietzsche Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 812 passages

Eastern Philosophy

The Analects — Confucius, trans. James Legge Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

The Art of War — Sun Tzu, trans. Lionel Giles Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Psychology

The Varieties of Religious Experience — William James Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1 & 2 — William James Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 8,308 passages

Science & Nature

On the Origin of Species — Charles Darwin Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Wisdom Literature

Essays: First Series — Ralph Waldo Emerson Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Walden — Henry David Thoreau Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Maxims — La Rochefoucauld Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

The Prophet — Kahlil Gibran Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Poems — Rainer Maria Rilke Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 214 passages

Essays of Michel de Montaigne — trans. Charles Cotton Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 7,241 passages

Confucianism

The Chinese Classics (The Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Analects, Mencius) — trans. James Legge Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 783 passages

Jainism

Jaina Sutras Part I: Akaranga Sutra & Kalpa Sutra — trans. Hermann Jacobi Internet Archive, Public Domain — 2,128 passages

Zoroastrianism

The Zend-Avesta Part I: The Vendidad — trans. James Darmesteter Internet Archive, Public Domain — 3,771 passages

Rastafari

The Holy Piby — Robert Athlyi Rogers Project Gutenberg, Public Domain

Mythology

The Egyptian Book of the Dead — trans. E.A. Wallis Budge Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 197 passages

The Poetic Edda — trans. Henry Adams Bellows Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 3,671 passages

The Prose Edda — Snorri Sturluson, trans. Rasmus Anderson Project Gutenberg, Public Domain — 1,062 passages