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Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (33)
My son, do not have anyone as a friend, but if you do acquire one, do not entrust yourself to him. Entrust yourself to God alone as father and as friend. For everyone proceeds deceitfully, while the whole earth is full of suffering and pain - things in which there is no profit. If you wish to pass your life in quiet, do not keep company with anyone. And if you do keep company with them, be as if you do not. Be pleasing to God, and you will not need anyone.
The Path of Light
Chapter 8: The Perfect Contemplation (2)
If he share in the life of the foolish, a man assuredly goes to hell; if he share it not, he wins hatred; what profits it to have commerce with the...
The Masnavi
The Villager who invited the Townsman to visit him (51-60)
Cut off these evil doubts and cast them away, Therefore thou hast chosen harsh friends and companions; The good friend goes up to highest heaven,...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIII: The Elephant (330)
It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool; let a man walk alone, let him commit no sin, with few wishes, like an elephant in...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIII: The Elephant (329)
If a man find no prudent companion who walks with him, is wise, and lives soberly, let him walk alone, like a king who has left his conquered country...
Dhammapada
Chapter V: The Fool (61)
If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCI (4)
And it shall guide you on good paths, And righteousness shall be your companion.
Dhammapada
Chapter IX: Evil (123)
Let a man avoid evil deeds, as a merchant, if he has few companions and carries much wealth, avoids a dangerous road; as a man who loves life avoids...
Dhammapada
Chapter VI: The Wise Man (Pandita) (78)
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (29)
By honoring a wise man, you will honor yourself. In all your actions place God before your eyes. You are permitted to refuse matrimony, in order that...
The Masnavi
The Building of the "Most Remote Temple" at Jerusalem (182-191)
Ho! seek aid of Him, not of another than Him Seek water in the ocean, not in a dried-up channel. On cleansing the inward temple of the heart from...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXII (23)
Fear not, my son Jacob, And be not dismayed, son of Abraham : May the Most High God preserve thee from destruction, And from all the paths of error...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (43)
Only (Reader) I admonish you sincerely; if you will be not in the Way of the Prodigal, or lost Son, returning to his Father again, that you leave my...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXV (3)
Thou wilt take thee a wife of the house of my father, and the Most High God will bless thee, and thy children will be a righteous generation and a hol...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXX (15)
When, after they set apart a father from his consort (hambâz), a brother from his brother, and a friend from his friend, they suffer, every one for...
The Path of Light
Chapter 8: The Perfect Contemplation (3)
It is well to flee from the foolish. If he come in thy way, seek to win him over by kindness, not so as to hold commerce with him, but in a manner of...
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (55)
Thou must not conceive it so, as if my old man were a living saint or angel. No, Friend, he sitteth with all men in the house of wrath and of death,...
The Masnavi
The Man who was Tattooed (21-30)
Every man takes refuge in some form of service, And chooses for himself some asylum; Do thou seek refuge in the shadow of the wise man, Of all forms...
Dhammapada
Chapter XX: The Way (288)
Sons are no help, nor a father, nor relations; there is no help from kinsfolk for one whom death has seized.