5th century BC

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Psalm 90:4).

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Sophocles. Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ [Oedipus at Colonus]. 401 BC, Festival of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

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Sophocles. "Oedipus at Colonus." The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Odeipus at Colonus, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2000.

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Herodotus. Histories. c. 430 BC, bk. 7.

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

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Euripides. Phrixus. 5th century BC, fragment 970.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Pindar

Nemean Odes

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Pindar. Nemean Odes. c. 473 BC, Nemean 4.

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Pindar. The Complete Odes, translated by Anthony Verity. Oxford University Press, 2008, Nemean IV.

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Aeschylus. Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης [Promethus Bound]. c. 430 BC.

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Aeschylus. Promethus Bound. Dover Publications, 1996.

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Aeschylus. Ἱκέτιδες, Hiketides [The Suppliants]. c. 455 BC.

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Aristophanes. Ἱππεῖς Hippeîs [The Knights]. 424 BC, Lenaia Festival, Athens, Greece.

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Aristophanes. "The Knights." The Birds and Other Plays, translated by Alan H. Sommerstein. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Pindar. Olympian Odes. c. 464 BC.

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Pindar. The Complete Odes, translated by Anthony Verity. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Zeno. Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius. c. 240 AD, bk. 7, ch. 1, sect. 23.

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Zeno. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 7, ch. 1, sect. 23.

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Heraclitus. On the Universe. c. 500 BC, no. 108.

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Heraclitus. "On the Universe." Hippocrates, translated by W. H. S. Jones. Vol. 4, Harvard University Press, 1931, no. 108.

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Xenophanes. Fragments. 5th century BC, F19 - DK21B18.

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Xenophanes. "Xenophanes of Colophon." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists. Oxford World Classics, 2009, F19 - DK21 B18.

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Pindar. Pythian Odes. c. 474, pythian 3.

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Pindar. The Complete Odes, translated by Anthony Verity. Oxford University Press, 2008, pythian 3.

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Heraclitus. Fragments. 5th century BC, F50 - DK B29.

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Heraclitus. "Heraclitus of Ephesus." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009, F50 - DK B29.

Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.

Psalm 104:15

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Psalm 104:15).

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Heraclitus. Fragments. 5th century BC, F53 - DK B44.

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Heraclitus. "Heraclitus of Ephesus." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009, F53 - DK B44.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Psalm 14:1).

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Aeschylus. Ἱκέτιδες, Hiketides [The Suppliants]. c. 455 BC.

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Euripides. Ἱππόλυτος [Hippolytus]. 428 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.

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Euripides. "Hippolytus." Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Your mercy, O LORD, endures forever.

Psalm 138:8

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The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Psalm 138:8).