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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Proverbs 14:13).

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 1:30-32).

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

God

Exodus 20:14

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Exodus 20:14).

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Polybius. Ἱστορίαι [Histories]. c. 110 BC, bk. 10.

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Polybius. The Histories, translated by W. R. Paton. Vol. 4, Loeb Classical Library, 1992, bk. 10.

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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 7.

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 7.

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Epictetus. Ἐγχειρίδιον Ἐπικτήτου, Enkheirídion Epiktḗtou [Enchiridion of Epictetus]. c. 125 CE, ch. 1.

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Epictetus. Enchiridion, translated by George Long. Dover Publications, 2004, ch. 1.

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

Catiline

Quoted in The War of Catiline, by Sallust

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Catiline. Quoted in Bellum Catilinae [War of Catiline], written by Sallust. c. 44 BC.

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Catiline. Quoted in "Cataline's Conspiracy." Cataline's Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War, Histories, written by Sallust and translated by William W. Batstone. Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Sophocles. "Hipponous." Fragments. c. 468 BC, frag. 301.

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Sophocles. "Hipponous." Fragments, edited and translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones. Harvard University Press, 1996, frag. 301.

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Hippocrates. The Law. c. 4th century BC, pt. 4.

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Hippocrates. "Canon." Hippocratic Writings, translated by J. Chadwick and W. N. Mann, et al. Penguin Classics, 1984.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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Josephus. Ἰωσήπου βίος [The Life of Flavius Josephus]. c. 99.

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Josephus. "The Life of Flavius Josephus." The New Complete Works of Josephus. Kregel Academic & Professional, 1999.

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Polybius. Ἱστορίαι [Histories]. c. 110 BC, bk. 18.

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Polybius. The Histories, translated by W. R. Paton. Vol. 5, Harvard University Press, 2012, bk. 18.

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Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. c. 429 BC, Theatre of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

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Sophocles. "Oedipus Rex." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 1.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 1.

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Pericles. Quoted in The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 2.

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Pericles. Quoted in The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.

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Xenophanes. Fragments. 5th century BC, F16 - DK22 B110.

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Xenophanes. "Xenophanes of Colophon." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists. Oxford World Classics, 2009, F16 - DK22 B110.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 18:21-22).

Lazarus, come forth.

Jesus

John 11:43

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (John 11:43).

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Galatians 6:7).

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The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Micah 5:2).

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Isaiah 40:31).