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Charaka Samhita (Ayurveda)Hindu / Ayurveda · c. 2nd c. BCE–2nd c. CEgrounds · high
Read the original · archive.org ↗Iamblichus — Life of PythagorasNeoplatonic / Pythagorean · c. 3rd–4th c. CEparallels · medium
Read the original · archive.org ↗PlatoClassical Greek philosophy · c. 428–348 BCEparallels · medium
“Behold! human beings living in an underground den... they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.”Read the original · gutenberg ↗— Republic, Book VII (514a–515a), trans. Benjamin Jowett
Samkhya Karika of IshvarakrishnaHindu / Samkhya · c. 4th c. CE (school c. 4th c. BCE–4th c. CE)grounds · high
“The inquiry is into the means of precluding the three sorts of pain; for pain is embarrassment: nor is the inquiry superfluous because obvious means of alleviation exist, for absolute and final relief is not thereby accomplished.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— Samkhya Karika of Ishvarakrishna, verse 1 (trans. H. T. Colebrooke & H. H. Wilson)
The Bhagavadgita, with Sanatsugatiya & Anugita (SBE Vol. 8)Hindu / Vedanta (Smriti) · c. 200 BCE–200 CE; SBE 1882grounds · high
“Your business is with action alone, not by any means with fruit. Let not the fruit of action be your motive to action. Let not your attachment be (fixed) on inaction.”Read the original · sacred-texts ↗— Bhagavadgîtâ, Ch. II.47 — trans. Kâshinâth Trimbak Telang, SBE Vol. 8
The Laws of Manu (SBE Vol. 25)Hindu / Dharmasastra · c. 200 BCE–200 CE; SBE 1886parallels · medium
“Justice, being violated, destroys; justice, being preserved, preserves: therefore justice must not be violated, lest violated justice destroy us.”Read the original · sacred-texts ↗— The Laws of Manu, Ch. VIII.15 — trans. Georg Bühler, SBE Vol. 25