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Then one day there really was a wolf but when the boy shouted, they didn't believe him.

Aesop

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The Boy Who Cried Wolf

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Aesop. "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Aesop's Fables. c. 600.

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Aesop. "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Aesop's Fables. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Ahiqar

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Ahiqar. The Story of Ahikar. c. 500 BC.

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Ahiqar. The Story of Ahikar, translated by Herbert Lindenberger. The John Hopkins Near Eastern Studies, 1983.

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Some say cavalry and others claim infantry or a fleet of long oars is the supreme sight on the black earth. I say it is the one you love.

Sappho

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Sappho. Supreme Sight on the Black Earth. c. 570 BCE.

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Sappho. The Complete Poems of Sappho, edited by Willis Barnstone. Shambhala Publications, 2009.

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Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

Job

Job 1:21

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 1:21).

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Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire: but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

1st Kings 19:11-12

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Kings 19:11-12).

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Job

Job 12:12

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 12:12).

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To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Sun Tzu

The Art of War

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Sun Tzu. 孫子兵法 [The Art of War]. c. 475 BC, ch. 3.

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Sun Tzu. The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life, translated by John Minford. Penguin Classics, 2009, ch. 3.

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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Gautama Buddha

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Samyutta Nikaya. c. 6th century BC, (1.10).

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The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi. Wisdom Publications, 2003.

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Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.

Job 37:5

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 37:5).

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Canst thou by searching find out God?

Job 11:7

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 11:7).

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Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Eliphaz

Job 5:7

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 5:7).

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Written laws are like spiders' webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Anacharsis

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Quoted in Plutarch's Lives, by Plutarch

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Anacharsis. Quoted in "Solon." Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans. c. 120.

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Anacharsis. Quoted in "Solon." Greek Lives, written by Plutarch, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.

Theognis of Megara

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Theognis. Elegies. c. 541 BC.

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Theognis. "Elegies." Hesiod and Theognis: Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies, translated by Dorothea Wender. Penguin Classics, 1976.

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For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God.

Job

Job 19:25-26 KJV

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The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Job 19:25-26).

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Lead me from the unreal to the real!
Lead me from the darkness to light!
Lead me from death to immortality!

The Upanishads

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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. (1.3.28).

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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (with the Commentary of Sankaracarya), translated by Swami Madhavananda. Advaita Ashrama, 2008 (1.3.28).

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Curse God, and die.

Job 2:9

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 2:9).

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How long will you waver between two opinions?

1st Kings 18:21

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (1st Kings 18:21).

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Many evil men are rich, and good men poor,
But we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

Solon

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Solon. Quoted in "Solon." Parallel Lives by Plutarch. c. 2nd century BC, ch. 3.

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Solon. Quoted in "Solon." Greek Lives, written by Plutarch, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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But where shall wisdom be found?

Job

Job 28:12

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 28:12).

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But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.