1st century BC

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 2, no. 10.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, no. 10.

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Virgil. Aenē̆is [Aeneid]. 19 BC, bk. 2.

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Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 2.

O tempora! O mores!

Cicero

Against Catiline

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. "Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habit." 63 BC, Rome Senate, Rome, Italy.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cicero: In Catilinam I-IV, edited by J.F. Stout. Bristol Classical Press, 2009, Oratio 1.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistles ad Familiares [Letters to Friends]. c. 46 BC, bk. 4, no. 8.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 2, l. 54.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 2, l. 54.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 4, no. 2.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 4, no. 2.

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Sallust. Bellum Catilinae [War of Catiline]. c. 43–40 BC.

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Sallust. "The War with Catiline." The War with Catiline and The War with Jugurtha, translated by John T. Ramsey J. C. Rolfe. Harvard University Press, 2013.

There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature.

Cicero

Tusculan Disputations

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Tusculanae Disputationes [Tusculan Disputations]. c. 45 BC, bk. 3, ch. 3.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus]. c. 50, bk. 9, no. 10.

Let the punishment match the offense.

Cicero

On the Laws

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Legibus [On the Laws]. c. 43 BC, bk. 3, sect. 11.

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Ovid. Amores. c. 16 BC, bk. 1, no. 9.

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Ovid. "Amores." The Love Poems, translated by A. D. Melville. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, no. 9.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 3, l. 971.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 3, l. 971.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 2.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, no. 2.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Officiis [On Obligations]. c. 44 BC, bk. 1, ch. 42, sect. 151.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. On Obligations, translated by P. G. Walsh. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 42, sect. 151.

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 10.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 10.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 2.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 2.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Sextus Propertius. Elegies. c. 24 BC, bk. 2.

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Sextus Propertius. Elegies, edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Harvard University Press, 1990, bk. 2.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 1, l. 312.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 1, l. 312.