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Plato, Symposium
My dear Socrates, that, then, is the nature of the Spirit called Love.
David, Jacques-Louis. The Death of Socrates. 1787. Oil on canvas. 129.5 x 196.2 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Plato, Phaedo
This way, he said. We surely agree that is anyone recollects anything, he must have known it before?
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Plato, Meno
Can you tell me, Socrates, can virtue be taught? Or is not teachable but the result of practice, or is it neither of these, but men possess it by nature or in some other way?
Prometheus and Atlas, Laconian black figure kylix, by the Arkesilas Painter, 560 550 BC, inv. 16592 Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vatican Museums DSC01069
Hesiod Theogony
"We know how to speak many false things that resemble the truth, but we also know, when we are willing, how to proclaim true things."
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Hesiod Works and Days
Hesiod. Theogony. Works and Days. Testimonia. Edited and translated by Glenn W. Most. Loeb Classical Library 57. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
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Psalter or the book of Psalms
There goe the ships; there is that Leuiathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
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Homer the Illiad
"Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter."
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Sophocles Antigone
"What law of the mighty gods have I transgressed? Why look to the heavens any more, tormented as I am? Whom to call, what allies? Devout as I am, they call me impious—and so for my piety, I am destroyed." — Translated by Robert Fagles
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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…
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