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Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

Ptolemy

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Tetrabiblos

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Ptolemy, Claudius. Τετράβιβλος [Tetrabiblios]. c. 150, bk. 1.

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For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

Luke 14:11

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 14:11).

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Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

Jesus

John 5:28-29

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (John 5:28-29).

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Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

Jesus

John 20:29

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (John 20:29).

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Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things are either what they appear to be; or they are neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

Epictetus

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Epictetus. Ἐπικτήτου διατριβαί, Epiktētou diatribai [The Discourses of Epictetus]. c. 108, bk. 1, ch. 27.

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Epictetus. "The Discourses." Discourses and Other Writings, edited and translated by Robert Dobbin. Penguin Classics, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 27.

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Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? "What sinews are those?"-A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolution; unerring decisions.

Epictetus

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Epictetus. Ἐπικτήτου διατριβαί, Epiktētou diatribai [The Discourses of Epictetus]. c. 108, bk. 2, ch. 8.

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Epictetus. "The Discourses." Discourses and Other Writings, edited and translated by Robert Dobbin. Penguin Classics, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 8.

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Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

Jesus

Mark 13:31

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Mark 13:31).

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What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

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Epictetus. Ἐπικτήτου διατριβαί, Epiktētou diatribai [The Discourses of Epictetus]. c. 108, bk. 2, ch. 17.

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Epictetus. "The Discourses." Discourses and Other Writings, edited and translated by Robert Dobbin. Penguin Classics, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 17.

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Ye are fallen from grace.

Apostle Paul

Galatians 5:4

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Galatians 5:4).

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From this point onwards history becomes an organic whole: the affairs of Italy and Africa are connected with those of Asia and of Greece, and all events bear a relationship and contribute to a single end.

Polybius

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Polybius. Ἱστορίαι [Histories]. c. 110 BC, bk. 1.

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Polybius. The Histories, translated by W. R. Paton. Vol. 1, Harvard University Press, 2010, bk. 1.

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God be merciful to me a sinner.

Luke 18:13

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 18:13).

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Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

Revelation 22:20

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Revelation 22:20).

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Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

James 4:10

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (James 4:10).

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I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Jesus

John 14:6

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (John 14:6).

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There was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see.

Longus

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Longus. Δάφνις καὶ Χλόη [Daphnis and Chloe]. c. 250, preface.

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Longus. Daphnis and Chloe, translated by Ronald McCail. Oxford University Press, 2009, preface.

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Anacharsis laughed at Solon for imagining the dishonesty and covetousness of his countrymen could be restrained by written laws, which were like spiders' webs, and would catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but easily be broken by the mighty and rich.

Plutarch

Plutarch's Lives

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Anacharsis. Quoted in "Solon." Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans. c. 120.

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Anacharsis. Quoted in "Solon." Greek Lives, written by Plutarch, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock. Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.

Theognis of Megara

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Theognis. Elegies. c. 541 BC.

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Theognis. "Elegies." Hesiod and Theognis: Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies, translated by Dorothea Wender. Penguin Classics, 1976.

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The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

Pythagoras

Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius

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Pythagoras. Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius. c. 240 AD, bk. 8, ch. 1, sect. 30.

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Pythagoras. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 8, ch. 1, sect. 30.