100s BC

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For hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal.

Pali Tipitaka

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Love and hate Hate Love

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Pali Tipitaka

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Scripture

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Religious literature

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Sanskrit

Time

100 BC 100s BC 2nd century BC

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Original Citation

Pali Tipitaka. c. 100 BC, Khuddaka Nikaya, Dhammapada v. 5.

Current Citation

Meghaprasara, Matthew. New Guide to the Tipitaka. Sangha of Books, 2013, Dhammapada v. 5.

If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another man should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.

Pali Tipitaka

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Self-mastery Personal growth

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Pali Tipitaka

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Religious literature

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Sanskrit

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100 BC 100s BC 2nd century BC

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Pali Tipitaka. c. 100 BC, Khuddaka Nikaya, Dhammapada v. 103.

Current Citation

Meghaprasara, Matthew. New Guide to the Tipitaka. Sangha of Books, 2013, Dhammapada v. 103.

The person who is searching for his own happiness should pull out the dart that he has stuck in himself, the arrow-head of grieving, of desiring, of despair.

Pali Tipitaka

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Attachment (Buddhism) Seeking Personal liberation

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Pali Tipitaka

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Scripture

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Religious literature

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Sanskrit

Time

100 BC 100s BC 2nd century BC

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Original Citation

Pali Tipitaka. c. 100 BC, Khuddaka Nikaya, Sutta-Nipata v. 592

Current Citation

Meghaprasara, Matthew. New Guide to the Tipitaka. Sangha of Books, 2013, Khuddaka Nikaya, Sutta-Nipata, v. 592.

The Noble Truth of the Path leading to the Cessation of suffering is this: It is simply the Noble Eightfold Path, namely right view; right thought; right speech; right action; right livelihood; right effort; right mindfulness; right concentration.

Pali Tipitaka

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Reducing suffering Suffering

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Pali Tipitaka

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Religious literature

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Sanskrit

Time

100 BC 100s BC 2nd century BC

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Original Citation

Pali Tipitaka. c. 100 BC, Samyutta Nikaya, pt. 56, p. 11.

Current Citation

Meghaprasara, Matthew. New Guide to the Tipitaka. Sangha of Books, 2013, Samyutta Nikaya, pt. 56.

The Noble Truth of Suffering is this: Birth is suffering, aging is suffering; sickness is suffering; death is suffering; sorror and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is suffering; dissociation from the pleasant is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering-in brief, the five aggregates of attachment are suffering.

Pali Tipitaka

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Attachment (Buddhism) Suffering The human condition

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Pali Tipitaka

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Scripture

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Religious literature

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Sanskrit

Time

100 BC 100s BC 2nd century BC

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Original Citation

Pali Tipitaka. c. 100 BC, Samyutta Nikaya, pt. 56, p. 11.

Current Citation

Meghaprasara, Matthew. New Guide to the Tipitaka. Sangha of Books, 2013, Samyutta Nikaya, pt. 56.

Is It fitting to consider what is impermanent, painful, and subject to change as, "This is mine, this am I, this is my self"?

Pali Tipitaka

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Impermanence

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Pali Tipitaka

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Scripture

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Religious literature

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Question

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Sanskrit

Time

100 BC 100s BC 2nd century BC

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Pali Tipitaka. c. 100 BC, Vinaya, Mahav 1:6.

Current Citation

Meghaprasara, Matthew. New Guide to the Tipitaka. Sangha of Books, 2013, Vinaya Pitaka, Maha Vagga 1:6.

One man's meat is another man's poison.

Lucretius

On the Nature of Things

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Preferences Taste

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Lucretius

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On the Nature of Things

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Poem

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Philosophical literature

Language

Latin

Time

100 BC 100s BC 2nd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 4, l. 637.

Current Citation

Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 4, l. 637.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

Sima Qian

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Openness to criticism Criticism Personal growth

Author

Sima Qian

Source

Records of the Grand Historian

Genre

Historical literature

Language

Chinese

Time

109 BC 100s BC 2nd century BC

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Suma Quin. Written sometime around c. 110 BC.

Current Citation

Suma Qian. Records of the Grand Historian of China, translated by Burton Watson. Vol. 2, Columbia University Press, 1961, ch. 118.