Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Genesis 1:1).

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (John 3:16).

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 6:27).

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (John 8:7).

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Plato. Theatetus. c. 400 B. C., l. 155d.

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (John 8:32).

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Plato. Apology. 399 BC, 38a.

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Plato. "Apology." Plato: Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo. Translated by Christopher Emlyn-Jones. And William Preddy. Harvard UP, 2017, 38a5-6.

God is love.

1st John 4:8

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st John 4:8).

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 15:24).

Thou shalt not kill.

God

Exodus 20:13

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Exodus 20:13).

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Sophocles. Antigone. 441 BC, l 333.

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Sophocles. "Ajax." The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus. Translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin, 2000, l. 333.

Man is the measure of all things.

Protagoras

Quoted in Theaetetus, by Plato

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Plato. Theatetus. c. 400 B. C., l. 152a.

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Plato. Theatetus. Translated by Robin H. Waterfield. Penguin, 1987, l. 152a.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 19:24).

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (John 15:13).

Let my people go.

God

Exodus 10:3

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Exodus 10:3).

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Thales. Quoted in "Thales," The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius. 3rd century BC, bk. 1, ch. 1.

All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

Metaphysics

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Aristotle. Metaphysics. 322 BC, bk. 1, 980a.

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Aristotle. Metaphysics. Penguin, 1999, bk. 1, 980a.

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Virgil. Aeneid. 19 BC, bk. 10, l. 284.

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Virgil. The Aeneid. Translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin, 2010, bk. 10, l. 284.

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Sextus Propertius. Elegies. 24 B. C., bk. II, xxxiii, l. 43.

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Sextus Propertius. Elegies. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Harvard UP, 1990, bk. 2, vs. 33, l. 43.

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

Horace

"Carpe diem", in Latin.

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Horace. Odes. 23 BC, bk. 1, no. 11, last line.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes. Translated by David West. Oxford UP, 2008, bk. 1, no. 11, last line.