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Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 2.

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Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 2.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "De la Colere [Of Anger]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, c. 1588.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "On Anger." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Personal journal entry. Feb. 1850.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Genius and Temperament, 9 April 1861." The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843-1871, edited by Joel Myerson. Vol. 2, University of Georgia Press, 2010.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journal entry. May 1849.

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Heraclitus. Fragments. 5th century BC, F2 - DK B78.

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Heraclitus. "Heraclitus of Ephesus." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009, F2 - DK B78.

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Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 6.

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Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 6.

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Bion. Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius. c. 240 AD, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 47.

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Bion. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 47.

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Ptahhotep. The Maxims of Ptahhotep. c. 2375, maxim 34.

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Montesquieu. Uzbek to Ibben. 20th of the moon of Rhegeb, 1713.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

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Kant, Immanuel. Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten [Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals]. Riga: J. F. Hartknoch, 1785.

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Kant, Immanuel. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, translated by Mary Gregor and Jes Timmermann. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 7.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 7.

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Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 6.

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Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 6.

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Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 5.

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Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 5.

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Plotinus. The Six Enneads. c. 270, bk. 2, treatise 3.

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Plotinus. The Enneads, edited by Lloyd P. Gerson, translated by George Boys-Stones, et. al. Cambridge University Press, 2018, bk. 2, treatise 3.

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Héloïse. Letter to Abelard. c. 1150.

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Héloïse. "Letter 2: Heloise to Abelard." The Letters of Abelard and Heloise, edited and translated by Betty Radice. Penguin Books, 2004.

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Bacon, Francis. "Of Ceremonies and Respects." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Ceremonies and Respects." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

The people are the masters.

Edmund Burke

Speech in House of Commons, February 11, 1780

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Burke, Edmund. Address on the Independence of Parliament and Economical Reformation. House of Commons meeting. 11 Feb. 1780, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Public and Private Education." 27 Nov. 1864, Boston, MA, USA.

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Maimonides. דלאלת אלחאירין [The Guide of the Perplexed]. c. 1190.

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Maimonides. The Guide of the Perplexed, translated by Chaim Rabin. Hackett Publishing Company, 1995.

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Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London: Andrew Millar/Edinburgh: Alexander Kincaid and J. Bell, 1759, pt. 3, sect. 3, ch. 3.

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Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, edited by Ryan Patrick Hanley. Penguin, 2010, pt. 3, sect. 3, ch. 3.