Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

מִֽי־יֹ֭אמַר זִכִּ֣יתִי לִבִּ֑י טָ֝הַ֗רְתִּי מֵחַטָּאתִֽי׃

Proverbs 20:9

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Sin Original sin Human nature

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Proverbs The Bible

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Scripture

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Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

686 BC 680s BC 7th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Proverbs 20:9)

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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them.

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Shit rolls downhill Human nature
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Brontë, Emily, [published as Ellis Bell]. Wuthering Heights. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights, edited by Alexandra Lewis. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, ch. 11.

Another quote from the 7th century BC

He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.

Isaiah 53:7

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Isaiah The Bible
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Time
681 BC 680s BC 7th century BC
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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Isaiah 53:7).

Another quote from Classical antiquity

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

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Philosophy Introspection Self-criticism Self-knowledge Wisdom
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Socrates

Author

Plato
Source
Apology
Medium
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Language
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Time
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Era
Classical antiquity
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Plato. Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους [Apology of Socrates]. Speech of legal self-defence which Socrates spoke at his trial for impiety and corruption. 399 BC, Athens, Greece.

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Plato. "Apology." Plato: Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo, translated by Christopher Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy. Harvard University Press, 2017.

Another quote originally in Hebrew

God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM".

Exodus 3:14

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Nature of God God
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Exodus The Bible
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Scripture
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Religious literature
Statement Type
Boast
Language
Hebrew
Time
1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 3
Citation

The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Exodus 3:14).