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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that Which is to Come. London: Nathaniel Ponder, 1678, pt. 1.

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Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress, edited by Roger Pooley. Penguin Classics, 2009, pt. 1.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon
But small, appear most long and terrible.

Nathaniel Lee

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Lee, Nathaniel and John Dryden. Oedipus: A Tragedy. London: R. Bentley and M. Magnes, 1679, act 4, sc. 1.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Milton, John. "Paradise Regained." Paradise Regained, A Poem in 4 Books, to which is added Samson Agonistes. London: John Starkey, 1671, bk. 4, I. 240.

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Milton, John. "Paradise Regained." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 4, I. 240.

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Milton, John. "Paradise Regained." Paradise Regained, A Poem in 4 Books, to which is added Samson Agonistes. London: John Starkey, 1671, bk. 1, I. 482.

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Milton, John. "Paradise Regained." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, I. 482.

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Milton, John. "To Oliver Cromwell." Letters of State Written by Mr. John Milton. London, 1694, l. 9.

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Milton, John. "To the Lord General Cromwell." John Milton: The Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 9.

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Milton, John. "Samson Agonistes." Paradise Regained, A Poem in 4 Books, to which is added Samson Agonistes. London: John Starkey, 1671, I. 184.

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Milton, John. "Samson Agonistes." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 184.

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Milton, John. "Samson Agonistes." Paradise Regained, A Poem in 4 Books, to which is added Samson Agonistes. London: John Starkey, 1671, I. 1003.

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Milton, John. "Samson Agonistes." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, l. 1003.

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Moliere. Les Femmes Savantes [The Learned Ladies]. 11 Mar. 1672, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris, France, act 2, sc. 7.

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Moliere. "The Clever Women." The Miser and Other Plays, translated by David Coward and John Wood. Penguin Classics, 2000, act 2, sc. 7.

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Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]. 1677, pt. 4, prop. 68.

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Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics, translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge University Press, 2018, pt. 4, prop. 68.

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La Fontaine, Jean. Fables Choisies [La Fontaine's Fables]. Paris: Chez Denys Thierry and Claude Barbin, 1678, bk. 8, no. 1.

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La Fontaine, Jean. "Death and the Dying Man." The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro. University of Illinois Press, 2007.

Man differs more from man, than man from beast.

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

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Wilmot, John. A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind. London, c. 1679.

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Wilmot, John. "A Satire Against Reason and Mankind." Selected Poems. Oxford University Press, 2013.

Love…that cordial drop heaven in our cup has thrown
To make the nauseous draught of life go down.

John Wilmot

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Wilmot, John. A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country. London, c. 1680.

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Wilmot, John. "A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country." The Complete Works of John Wilmot. Penguin Classics, 1994.

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Sydenham, Thomas. Observationes Medicae. London, 1676.

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La Fayette, Madame de [published anonymously]. La Princesse de Cleves [The Princess of Cleves]. 1678, pt. 4.

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La Fayette, Madame de. The Princesse de Cleves, translated by Terence Cave. Oxford University Press, 1992, pt. 4.