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One man's meat is another man's poison.

Lucretius

On the Nature of Things

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Preferences Taste

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Lucretius

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On the Nature of Things

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Poem

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Latin

Time

100 BC 100s BC 2nd century BC

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Classical antiquity

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 4, l. 637.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 4, l. 637.

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Indeed, revenge is always the pleasure of a paltry, feeble, tiny mind.

Juvenal

Satires

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Revenge

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Juvenal

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Satires

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Poem

Language

Latin

Time

127 120s 2nd century

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 13.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 13.

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In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: "I am rising to a man's work."

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Waking up Mornings

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Marcus Aurelius

Source

Meditations

Medium

Personal journal

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

180 180s 2nd century

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Classical antiquity

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 5.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 5.

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Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

Sophocles

Antigone

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Bearer of bad news Bad news

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Guard

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Sophocles

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Antigone

Medium

Play

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Greek tragedy Tragedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

442 BC 440s BC 5th century BC

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Sophocles. Ἀντιγόνη [Antigone]. c. 441 BC, Festival of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

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Sophocles. "Antigone." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.

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Whosoever submits his will to God and performs good deeds, has laid hold of the most firm handle, and unto God is the issue of all affairs.

Muhammad

The Quran

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Submission (Islam) Doing the right thing Righteousness God as judge

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Muhammad

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The Quran

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Scripture

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Religious literature

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Arabic

Time

632 630s 7th century

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The Quran. c. 630, 31:22.

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The Quran, translated by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem. Oxford University Press, 2005, ch. 31.

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He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.

Proverbs 13:24

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Raising kids Discipline Parents and children

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Proverbs The Bible

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Scripture

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Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

686 BC 680s BC 7th century BC

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Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Proverbs 13:24).

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A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

Mark Twain

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Babies Parenting

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Mark Twain

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Letters of Mark Twain

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Letter

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English

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1876 1870s 19th century

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Twain, Mark. Letter to Annie Moffett Webster. 1 Sept. 1876.

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

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Food

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Virginia Woolf

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A Room of One's Own

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Essay

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 1.

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 1.

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A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Mind over matter Power of thought Thoughts

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Ethical Religion

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Religious literature

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Hindi

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1922 1920s 20th century

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Gandhi, Mahatma. Ethical Religion: Nithi Dharma. S. Ganesan, 1922.

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The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto

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Urbanization Small town life Rural vs. urban Bourgeoisie

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Karl Marx

Source

The Communist Manifesto

Medium

Pamphlet

Genre

Political literature Economic literature

Language

German

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels [published anonymously]. Manifest der kommunistischen Partei [Manifesto of the Communist Party]. London: Gedruckt in der Office der Bildungs-Gesellschaft für Arbeiter, 1848.

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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto, translated by Samuel Moore and Friedrich Engels. Penguin Classics, 2002.

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You got to get your kid on or your groove on. You can’t get both on at the same time.

Chris Rock

Bigger & Blacker

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Chris Rock

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Bigger & Blacker

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

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English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Rock, Chris. Bigger & Blacker. HBO, 10 July 1999.

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Our original guiding stars are struggle and hope.

Pablo Neruda

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Hope Fighting for justice Justice Progress Politics

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Pablo Neruda

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Toward the Splendid City (Speech)

Medium

Nobel Prize Lecture Speech

Language

Spanish

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

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Neruda, Pablo. "Towards the Splendid City." Acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature. 13 Dec. 1971, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Neruda, Pablo. "Towards the Splendid City." Nobel Lectures in Literature, 1968-1980. World Scientific Publishing Co., 2007.

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Listen, you promise me something, OK? Just if you’re ever in trouble, don’t true to be brave. You just run, OK? Just run away.

Forrest Gump

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Courage

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Jenny Curran

Actor

Robin Wright

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Forrest Gump

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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

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Look over there-smoke rises already from the rooftops
And longer fall the shadows cast by the mountain heights.

Virgil

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Nightfall Evening

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Tityrus

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Virgil

Source

Eclogues

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Poem

Language

Latin

Time

37 BC 30s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Virgil. Eclogae [Eclogues]. c. 30 BC, no. 1.

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Virgil. "The Eclogues." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 1.

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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Hippocrates

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Mastery Learning Personal development

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Hippocrates

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Aphorisms

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Greek

Time

410 BC 410s BC 5th century BC

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Classical antiquity

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Hippocrates. Aphorisms. c. 370 BC, sect. 1, pt. 1.

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Hippocrates. The Aphorisms. Classics of Medicine Library, 1982, sect. 1, pt. 1.

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The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them.

Thomas Jefferson

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Newspapers Media criticism

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Thomas Jefferson

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Letters of Thomas Jefferson

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Letter

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English

Time

1807 1800s 19th century

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to John Norvell. 11 June 1807.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "John Norvell, June 11, 1807." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library Classics, 1998.

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Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Jesus

Matthew 26:41

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Temptation

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Jesus

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Gospel of Matthew The Bible

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Religious literature

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Greek

Time

60 60s 1st century

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Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 26:41).

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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Hard work Idleness

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Theodore Roosevelt

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The Strenuous Life (speech) Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt

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Speech

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English

Time

1899 1890s 19th century

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Strenuous Life." Hamilton Club of Chicago meeting. 10 Apr. 1899, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Strenuous Life." Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt, edited by Gordon Hutner. Vintage, 2014.

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Everyone has the potential for self-knowledge and sound thinking.

Heraclitus

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Self-knowledge Human potential Personal growth

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Heraclitus

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Presocratic fragment Fragment

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Philosophical literature

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Greek

Time

5th century BC

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Classical antiquity

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Xenophanes. Fragments. 5th century BC, F31 - DK22 B116.

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Xenophanes. "Xenophanes of Colophon." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists. Oxford World Classics, 2009, F31 - DK22 B116.

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In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

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Knowledge Wisdom

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Ecclesiastes The Bible

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Scripture

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Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

931 BC 930s BC 10th century BC

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Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ecclesiastes 1:18).

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