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Charaka Samhita (Ayurveda)Hindu / Ayurveda · c. 2nd c. BCE–2nd c. CEgrounded in · high confidence
Read in full — our archive →from the Internet ArchiveIamblichus — Life of PythagorasNeoplatonic / Pythagorean · c. 3rd–4th c. CEparallel to · medium confidence
Read in full — our archive →from the Internet ArchivePlatoClassical Greek philosophy · c. 428–348 BCEparallel to · medium confidence
“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 in full — our archive →from Project 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)grounded in · high confidence
“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 in full — in the Lycaeum →The Sānkhya Kārikā, with the Bhāshya of Gauḍapāda — trans. H. T. Colebrooke and H. H. Wilson (1837)cited from the Internet Archive— 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 1882grounded in · high confidence
“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 in full — our archive →from 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 1886parallel to · medium confidence
“Justice, being violated, destroys; justice, being preserved, preserves: therefore justice must not be violated, lest violated justice destroy us.”Read in full — our archive →from Sacred Texts— The Laws of Manu, Ch. VIII.15 — trans. Georg Bühler, SBE Vol. 25