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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.

Shakespeare, William. "Love's Labour's Lost." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 3.

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 6.

Herodotus. The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 7.

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.

Milton, John. "Areopagitica." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1.

Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 6. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 68.

Behn, Aphra. "The Emperor of the Moon." The Rover and Other Plays, edited by Jane Spencer. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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

Shakespeare, William. "Julius Caesar." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 4.

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

Chekhov, Anton. "Uncle Vanya." Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull' Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard, translated by Peter Carson. Penguin Classics, 2002, act 1.

Ovid. "Sappho to Phaon." The Heroides, edited and translated by Harold Isbell. Penguin Classics, 1990, no. 15, l. 43.