He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

[הָלֹוךְ כ] (הֹולֵ֣ךְ ק) אֶת־חֲכָמִ֣ים [וַחֲכָם כ] (יֶחְכָּ֑ם ק) וְרֹעֶ֖ה כְסִילִ֣ים יֵרֹֽועַ׃

Proverbs 13:20

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Positive influences Negative influences Influences

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Religious literature

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Hebrew

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686 BC 680s BC 7th century BC

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Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Proverbs 13:20).

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Another quote from the 7th century BC

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

Proverbs 25:25

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Good news
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Hebrew
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686 BC 680s BC 7th century BC
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Classical antiquity
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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Proverbs 25:25).

Another quote from Classical antiquity

We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth is to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome.

Pericles

Quoted in Funeral Oration, by Thucydides

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Golden mean
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Pericles

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Thucydides
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Funeral Oration History of the Peloponnesian War
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Speech
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Political speech Historical literature
Language
Greek
Time
430 BC 430s BC 5th century BC
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Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 2.

Current Citation

Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.

Another quote originally in Hebrew

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:7

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Adam Creation of man The soul Human origins
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Genesis The Bible
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Scripture
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Hebrew
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1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC
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Classical antiquity
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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 2:7).