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Sophocles
Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole. Matthew Arnold on Sophocles.
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Homeric Poems
"Cyclops, try this wine—flesh of the grape, it is— just see what stock we carried in our hold. This was the drink I planned to offer you, hoping you would receive me, treat me well, and speed me home. But you rage on, unbearable, madman that you are."
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Pre-Socratics
δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης. A man never steps in the same river twice.
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Oracle at Delphi
"Though all else shall be taken, yet shall Zeus grant to the sight A wooden wall that shall not fall; and this shall save you and your children."
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Book of Job
Job 41:1 (The Capture)The Great Bible (1539): "Canst thou drawe out Leuyathan with an angle? or bynde hys tonge with a snare?"The Book of Common Prayer (1604): "Canst thou draw…