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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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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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Bion. Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laƫrtius. c. 240 AD, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 50.

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Bion. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laƫrtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 50.

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Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 2.

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Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 2.

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Heraclitus. Fragments. 5th century BC, F2 - DK B78.

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Heraclitus. "Heraclitus of Ephesus." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009, F2 - DK B78.

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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.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

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Kant, Immanuel. Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten [Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals]. Riga: J. F. Hartknoch, 1785.

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Kant, Immanuel. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, translated by Mary Gregor and Jes Timmermann. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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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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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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Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 5.

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Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 5.

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Plotinus. The Six Enneads. c. 270, bk. 2, treatise 3.

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Plotinus. The Enneads, edited by Lloyd P. Gerson, translated by George Boys-Stones, et. al. Cambridge University Press, 2018, bk. 2, treatise 3.

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Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London: Andrew Millar/Edinburgh: Alexander Kincaid and J. Bell, 1759, pt. 3, sect. 3, ch. 3.

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Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, edited by Ryan Patrick Hanley. Penguin, 2010, pt. 3, sect. 3, ch. 3.

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Paine, Thomas. Rights of man. Part the second. London: J. S. Jordan, 1792.

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Paine, Thomas. "Rights of Man Part the second." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Yamamoto, Tsunemomo. 葉隠 [Hagakure]. c. 1716.

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Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Dublin: Jeremy Pepat, 1710, sect. 4.

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Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, edited by Kenneth P. Winkler. Hackett Publishing Company, 1982, sect. 4.

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Twain, Mark. "The Lowest Animal." Letters from the Earth. Harper & Row, 1962.

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Twain, Mark. "The Lowest Animal." Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004.

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Foucault, Michel. Surveiller et punir:ā€ÆNaissance de la prison [Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison]. Gallimard, 1975.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking.

Bodhidharma

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Bodhidharma. The Zen Teaching of Bodhidarma. c. 550.

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Bodhidharma. The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, translated by Red Pine. North Point Press, 1989.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de Amicitia. c. 44 BC, ch. 17, sect. 64.

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Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Weatherhill, 1970. Originally a talk given at his Zen center in c. 1969, Los Altos, CA, USA.