Philosophical literature

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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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Blake, William. "Proverbs of Hell." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. c. 1790.

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Blake, William. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 347.

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 347.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 7.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 7.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance (1841)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Heraclitus. Fragments. 5th century BC, DK B110.

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Heraclitus. "Heraclitus of Ephesus." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009, DK B110.

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Hume, David, [published anonymously]. A Treatise of Human Nature. London: John Noon, 1739, bk. 2, pt. 3, sect. 3.

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Hume, David. "A Treatise of Human Nature." The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume, edited by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton. Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 2007, bk. 2, pt. 3, sect. 3.

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Heraclitus. On the Universe. c. 500 BC, no. 77.

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Heraclitus. "On the Universe." Hippocrates, translated by W. H. S. Jones. Vol. 4, Harvard University Press, 1931, no. 77.

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Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 6.

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Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 6.

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Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. London: Thomas Basset, 1690, bk. 4, ch. 19, sect. 11.

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Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Pauline Phemister. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 4, ch. 19, sect. 11.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Orator ad M. Brutum. c. 46 B. C., ch. 34, sect. 120.

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Heraclitus. Quoted in Κρατύλος [Cratylus], by Plato. c. 348 BC, sect. 402a.

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Heraclitus. Quoted in Craylus, by Plato. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 402a.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 4.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 4.

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Blake, William. "The Argument." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. c. 1790.

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Blake, William. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.

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Camus, Albert. Le Mythe de Sisyphe [The Myth of Sisyphus]. Éditions Gallimard, 1942.

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Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]. 1677, pt. 3, def. 13, explanation.

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Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics, translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge University Press, 2018, pt. 3, def. 13, explanation.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 139.

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 139.

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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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Paine, Thomas. The Age of Reason, Part I. London: Joel Barlow, 1794.

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Paine, Thomas. "The Age of Reason, Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (1794)." Selected Writings of Thomas Paine, edited by Ian Shapiro and Jane E. Calvert. Yale University Press, 2014.

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Boethius. De Consolatione Philosophiae [On the Consolation of Philosophy]. 524, bk. 2, poem 4.

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Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy, translated by Victor Watts. Penguin Classics, 1999, bk. 2, poem 4.