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Newton, Isaac. Scholium Generale. [General Scolium]. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy] vol. 2. London: Benjamin Motte, 1729.

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Newton, Isaac. "General Scolium." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995.

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Saint Cyprian. De Ecclesiae Catholicae Unitate. c. 251, ch. 6.

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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.

There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature.

Cicero

Tusculan Disputations

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Tusculanae Disputationes [Tusculan Disputations]. c. 45 BC, bk. 3, ch. 3.

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A Kempis, Thomas. De Imitatione Christi [The Imitation of Christ]. c. 1427.

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A Kempis, Thomas. The Complete Imitation of Christ, translated by John Julian. Paraclete Press, 2012.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus]. c. 50, bk. 9, no. 10.

Let the punishment match the offense.

Cicero

On the Laws

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Legibus [On the Laws]. c. 43 BC, bk. 3, sect. 11.

Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Suetonius

Said by gladiators saluting the Roman Emperor prior to combat.

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

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

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A Kempis, Thomas. De Imitatione Christi [The Imitation of Christ]. c. 1418, bk. 2, ch. 6.

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A Kempis, Thomas. The Complete Imitation of Christ, translated by John Julian. Paraclete Press, 2012.

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Ovid. Amores. c. 16 BC, bk. 1, no. 9.

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Ovid. "Amores." The Love Poems, translated by A. D. Melville. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, no. 9.

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Saint Thomas Aquinus. Summa Theologica. c. 1274, pt. 1.

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Saint Thomas Aquinus. The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Provinc. Christian Classics, 1981, pt. 1.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Caligula

Quoted in Lives of the Caesars, by Suetonius

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Accius, Lucius. Atreus. c. 86 BC, Rome, Italy.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 3, l. 971.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 3, l. 971.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 2.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, no. 2.

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Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno [Hell]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.

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Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Officiis [On Obligations]. c. 44 BC, bk. 1, ch. 42, sect. 151.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. On Obligations, translated by P. G. Walsh. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 42, sect. 151.

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Saint Jerome. Letter to Heliodorus. c. 374.

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Saint Jerome. The Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2016.

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 10.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 10.

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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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Martial. Epigrammata [Epigrams]. c. 102 AD, bk. 3, no. 42.

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Martial. Epigrams, translated by Gideon Nisbet. Oxford University Press, 2015, bk. 3, no. 42.