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

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 25:40).

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Romans 8:31).

The kingdom of God is within you.

Jesus

Luke 17:21

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 17:21).

Thou shalt not steal.

God

Exodus 20:15

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Exodus 20:15).

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Plutarch. "Περὶ τοῦ ἀκούειν [On Hearing]." Ἠθικά Ethika [Moralia]. c. 100 AD.

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Plutarch. "On Listening." Essays. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 24:5).

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Mark 3:24, 25).

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Agathon. Quoted in Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia [Nicomachean Ethics], written by Aristotle. c. 350 BC, bk. 6.

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Agathon. Quoted in Nicomachean Ethics, written by Aristotle, translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing Company, 2019, bk. 7, ch. 2.

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Ovid. "To Albinovanus: The Sixth Summer." Epistulae ex Ponto. 1st century CE, bk. 4, no. 10, l. 5.

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Oivd. "Ex Ponto." Triste; Ex Ponto, translated by Arthur Leslie Wheeler, edited by G. P. Goold. Harvard University Press, 1988.

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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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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st John 18:38).

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Tertullian. Apologeticum [Apologeticus]. c. 197, ch. 50, sect. 13.

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

One more such victory over the Romans and we are lost.

Pyrrhus

Quoted in Plutarch's Lives, by Plutarch

On the defeat of the Romans at Asculum, 279 BC, a battle in which his army suffered heavy losses at the hands of the Romans.

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Pyrrhus. Quoted in "Pyrrhus." Parallel Lives by Plutarch. c. 2nd century BC, ch. 21, sect. 9.

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Pyrrhus. Quoted in "Pyrrhus." Parallel Lives by Plutarch. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 21, sect. 9.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 30.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk, 3, no. 30.

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Tertullian. De Praescriptione Haereticorum [On the Prescription of Heretics]. c. 1892, ch. 7.

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Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria [Institutes of Oratory]. c. 95 AD, bk. 4, ch. 1, sect. 91.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 22:14).

He gave up the ghost.

Luke 23:46

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 23:46).