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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (John 15:13).

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 2.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 2.

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Virgil. Eclogae [Eclogues]. c. 30 BC, no. 9.

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Virgil. "The Eclogues." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 9.

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Plutarch. "Περὶ παίδων ἀγωγῆς [On the Education of Children]." Ἠθικά Ethika [Moralia]. c. 100 AD.

Sons are the anchors of a mother's life.

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Sophocles. Phaedra. c. 5th century BC, fragment 612.

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

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

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 13.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 13.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 5.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 5.

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Sophocles. Ἀντιγόνη [Antigone]. c. 441 BC, Festival of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

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

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The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Proverbs 13:24).

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Virgil. Eclogae [Eclogues]. c. 30 BC, no. 1.

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Virgil. "The Eclogues." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 1.

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Hippocrates. Aphorisms. c. 370 BC, sect. 1, pt. 1.

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Hippocrates. The Aphorisms. Classics of Medicine Library, 1982, sect. 1, pt. 1.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 26:41).

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Xenophanes. Fragments. 5th century BC, F31 - DK22 B116.

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Xenophanes. "Xenophanes of Colophon." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists. Oxford World Classics, 2009, F31 - DK22 B116.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ecclesiastes 1:18).

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

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Martial. Epigrammata [Epigrams]. c. 102 AD, bk. 10, no. 47.

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Martial. Epigrams, translated by Gideon Nisbet. Oxford University Press, 2015, bk. 10, no. 47.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ephesians 6:11).

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Jeremiah 23:24).

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Sallust. Bellum Catilinae [War of Catiline]. c. 43–40 BC.

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Sallust. "The War with Catiline." The War with Catiline and The War with Jugurtha, translated by John T. Ramsey J. C. Rolfe. Harvard University Press, 2013.