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Here one must leave behind all hesitation;
here every cowardice must meet its death.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno

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Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno [Hell]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.

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Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused.

Dante Alighieri

Paradiso

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Alighieri, Dante. "Paradiso [Paradise]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.

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Alighieri, Dante. "Paradiso." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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I've finished that chapel I was painting. The Pope is quite satisfied.

Michelangelo

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Michelangelo. Letter to his father. Oct. 1512.

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All hell broke loose.

John Milton

Paradise Lost

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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 4, I. 918.

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Milton, John. "Paradise Lost." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 4, I. 918.

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The reputation which the world bestows
is like the wind, that shifts now here now there,
its name changed with the quarter whence it blows.

Dante Alighieri

Purgatorio

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Dante. "Purgatorio [Purgatory]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.

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Dante. "The Purgatorio." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.

Proverbs 13:19

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Proverbs 13:19).

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Law is mighty, mightier necessity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil [Faust. The Tragedy's Second Part]. 1832, act 1, sc. 3.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust: Part Two, translated by David Luke. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 1, sc. 3.

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If I didn't have to hate her, I'd adore her.

My Best Friend's Wedding

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My Best Friend's Wedding. Directed by P. J. Hogan, TriStar Pictures/Zucker Brothers Productions, 1997.

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Aristotle

Quoted in On the Tranquility of the Mind, by Seneca the Younger

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Seneca the Younger. De Tranquillitate Animi [On the Tranquility of the Mind]. c. 60.

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Seneca the Younger. "On Tranquility of Mind." Moral Essays. Vol. 2, Harvard University Press, 1963.

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To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

Socrates

Quoted in Apology, by Plato

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Plato. Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους [Apology of Socrates]. Speech of legal self-defence which Socrates spoke at his trial for impiety and corruption. 399 BC, Athens, Greece.

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Plato. "Apology." Plato: Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo, translated by Christopher Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy. Harvard University Press, 2017.

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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 3, ch. 4.

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Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. c. 1519.

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Riches, knowledge and honour are but several sorts of power.

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. London: Andrew Crooke, 1651, pt. 1, ch. 4.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, edited by Christopher Brooke. Penguin Classics, 2017, pt. 1, ch. 4.

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The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Socrates

Quoted in Republic, by Plato

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Socrates. Quoted in Πολιτεία [Republic], written by Plato. c. 375 BCE.

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Socrates. Quoted in Republic, written by Plato, translated by Desmond Lee. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Tyler Durden

Fight Club

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Fight Club. Directed by David Fincher, Fox 2000 Pictures/Regency Enterprises/Linson Films, 1999.

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Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 2, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

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Mama, always said, dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

Forrest Gump

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Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Tisch Company, 1994.

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I hate men, but I’m not a lesbian.

Elaine Benes

Seinfeld

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"The Subway." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Larry Charles, directed by Tom Cherones, season 3, episode 13, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1992.

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At fifteen my mind was set on learning. At thirty my character had been formed. At forty I had no more perplexities. At fifty I knew the Mandate of Heaven. At sixty I was at ease with whatever I heard. At seventy I could follow my heart's desire without transgressing moral principles.

Confucius

Quoted in Analects

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Confucius. 論語 [The Analects]. c. 479 BCE.

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Confucius. The Analects, edited and translated by Annping Chin. Penguin Classics, 2014.