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Allogenes the Stranger
Without Mind, Life, or Existence (3)
Neither does he have any desire, whether his own or that would have been added by something else.
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (92)
Neither would God presently give him the kindled Salitter for an eternal habitation, for the internal birth or geniture of the spirits stood yet...
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Yoga (3.18)
He does not depend upon any being for any object.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Knowledge of God Can Be Attained Only Through Faith. (3)
Nay, He has not even built one for Himself, since He cannot be contained. And though heaven be called His throne, not even thus is He contained, but...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVII: Philosophy Conveys Only An Imperfect Knowledge of God. (8)
Accordingly he does not profess to wish to participate, but begins to do so. Nor does it belong to him to intend, but to be regal, and illuminated,...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (33)
Think that you suffer a great punishment when you obtain the object of corporeal desire; for the attainment of such objects never satisfies desire.
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (54)
Neither would he be all-knowing, for he could not know how it was before his Father had generated him.
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (382)
God does not need anything, but he rejoices over those who give to the needy.
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (6)
God, indeed, is not in want of any thing, but the wise man is in want of God alone. He, therefore, who is in want but of few things, and those...