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Μούσαις Χάρισι θῦε -> sacrifice to the Muses and Charites

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ἀντιπεπονθός -> reciprocity, requital, suffering in turn, karma;

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νῦν εὐπλόηκα, ὅτε νεναυάγηκα -> I made a prosperous voyage when I suffered shipwreck

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ὄμφακές εἰσιν -> it's sour grapes

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ταῦτα δὲ ἔδει ποιῆσαι κἀκεῖνα μὴ ἀφιέναι -> these things should have been done without neglecting the others | these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others | these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone

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εἰ μέντοι νόμον τελεῖτε βασιλικὸν κατὰ τὴν γραφήν, Ἀγαπήσεις τὸν πλησίον σου ὡς σεαυτόν, καλῶς ποιεῖτε -> Now if you're accomplishing the King’s Law according to scripture — Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself — you're doing the right thing (James 2:8)

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ἀλλήλων τὰ βάρη βαστάζετε, καὶ οὕτως ἀναπληρώσετε τὸν νόμον τοῦ Χριστοῦ -> bear each other's burdens, and in that way fulfill the anointed King's Law (Galatians 6:2)

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καὶ οὐκ ἐκδικᾶταί σου ἡ χείρ, καὶ οὐ μηνιεῖς τοῖς υἱοῖς τοῦ λαοῦ σου καὶ ἀγαπήσεις τὸν πλησίον σου ὡς σεαυτόν· ἐγώ εἰμι κύριος. Τὸν νόμον μου φυλάξεσθε -> Let your hand not seek vengeance; do not show wrath toward the children of your people; love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord! Keep my Torah! (Leviticus 19:18f. LXX)

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Πάντα οὖν ὅσα ἐὰν θέλητε ἵνα ποιῶσιν ὑμῖν οἱ ἄνθρωποι, οὕτως καὶ ὑμεῖς ποιεῖτε αὐτοῖς· οὗτος γάρ ἐστιν ὁ νόμος καὶ οἱ προφῆται -> Therefore as many things as you would like people to do for you, do also the same for them: that is the Torah, that is the prophets! (Matthew 7:12)

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ἀλλὰ διὰ τῆς ἀγάπης δουλεύετε ἀλλήλοις. ὁ γὰρ πᾶς νόμος ἐν ἑνὶ λόγῳ πεπλήρωται, ἐν τῷ Ἀγαπήσεις τὸν πλησίον σου ὡς σεαυτόν -> but be enslaved to each other through love; for the whole Torah is fulfilled in one statement: You will love your neighbor as yourself (Galatians 5:13f.)

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συμπεφύκασι γὰρ αἱ ἀρεταὶ τῷ ζῆν ἡδέως (Epicurus' Letter to Menoeceus via Diogenes Laertius 10.132.10) -> The virtues are part and parcel of the stress-free life

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Κινδυνεύουσι γὰρ ὅσοι τυγχάνουσιν ὀρθῶς ἁπτόμενοι φιλοσοφίας λεληθέναι τοὺς ἄλλους ὅτι οὐδὲν ἄλλο αὐτοὶ ἐπιτηδεύουσιν ἢ ἀποθνῄσκειν τε καὶ τεθνάναι -> Actually, the rest of us probably haven't realized that those who manage to pursue philosophy as it should be pursued are practicing nothing else but dying and being dead (Socrates via Plato, "Phaedo" 64a.5)

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ὁ ὤν -> he who is (Exodus 3:14)

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ὁ γοῦν κυνικὸς Μένιππος ἁλμοπότιν τὴν Μύνδον φησίν (Athenaios 1.34e) -> At any rate the Cynic (satirist) Menippus says that Myndus is a brine-drinking town.

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Ἐς δὲ τὰ ἔσχατα νουσήματα αἱ ἔσχαται θεραπεῖαι ἐς ἀκριβείην, κράτισται -> But for extreme illnesses, extreme remedies, applied with severe exactitude, are the best (Hippocrates, Aphorism 6)

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Πέτρος Ἰουδαίοις τάδε πρῶτα τεθέσπικε πιστοῖς -> Peter has laid down the following first writing for the Jewish faithful

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οὐχ οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ τοῦ τέκτονος υἱός; οὐχ ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ λέγεται Μαριὰμ καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ Ἰάκωβος καὶ Ἰωσὴφ καὶ Σίμων καὶ Ἰούδας; -> “Isn’t he the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers Jacob and Joseph and Shimon and Judah?" (Matthew 13:55)

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πράξεις αἱ σοφαὶ τῶν σοφῶν ἀποστόλων -> the wise acts of the wise Apostles

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ἀποφήσκο

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ἀποφαντικὸς λόγος -> apophantic speech

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