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Theognis. The Maxims of Theognis the Megarean. c. 485 BC.

Leave no stone unturned.

Euripides

Children of Hercules

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Euripides. Herakles' Children [Children of Heracles]. c. 430 BC, Athens, Greece.

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Euripides. "The Children of Hercules." Euripides I: Alcestis; Medea; The Children of Heracles; Hippolytus, edited and translated by Mark Griffith, Glenn W. Most, David Grene, and Richmond Lattimore. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

There is no salvation outside the Church.

Saint Cyprian

Letter to Jubaianus

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Saint Cyprian. Letter to Jubaianus, Concerning the Baptism of Heretics. c. 250.

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Saint Cyprian. "Letter 73: Rebaptism: the Novatian Dimension." On the Church: Select Letters, translated by Allen Brent. St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2006.

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Saint Jerome. Letter to Paulinus. c. 395, sect. 2.

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Matthew 17:20).

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Saint Jerome. Letter to Rufinus the Monk. c. 374, sect. 6.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 26:39).

Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to every one his due.

Justinian I

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Justinian. "Institutiones Justinani [Institutes of Justinian]." Corpus Iurus Civilis [Body of Civil Law]. c. 533, b. 1, ch. 1, para. 1.

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Justinian. Justinian's Institutes, translated by Peter Birks and Grant McLeod. Cornell University Press, 1987, bk. 1, ch. 1, para. 1.

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 8.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 8.

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 6.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 6.

A woman's vows I write upon the wave.

Sophocles

Unknown drama

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Sophocles. Unnamed drama. 5th century BC, fragment 694.

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Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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

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

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

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Martial. Epigrammata [Epigrams]. c. 102 AD, bk. 7, no. 73.

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Martial. Epigrams, translated by Gideon Nisbet. Oxford University Press, 2015, bk. 7, no. 73.

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Socrates. Quoted in Θεαίτητος [Theaetetus], written by Plato. c. 369 BC.

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Socrates. Quoted in Theaetetus, written by Plato, translated by John McDowell. Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Aristophanes. Ὄρνιθες [Birds]. c. 414, Dionysia, Athens, Greece.

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Aristophanes. "Birds." Aristophanes: The Complete Plays, translated by Paul Roche. New American Library/Berkley, 2005.

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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.

Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

Apostle Peter

Acts 4:12

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Acts 4:12).