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Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (86)
Put all words to the test before you utter them.
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (177)
May your life confirm your words before those who hear.
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC ETHICAL SENTENCES FROM STOBÆUS, Which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, &c. of Gale. (25)
Let it be more eligible to you to throw a stone in vain, than to utter an idle word. Pythagoras. Stob. p. 215.
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (366)
It is better for you to be silent about the word of God, than to speak recklessly.
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (53)
These words must be considered exactly, what they are. For the word (Am) conceiveth itself in the heart, and goeth forth to the lips, but there is...
Dhammapada
Chapter XVII: Anger (232)
Beware of the anger of the tongue, and control thy tongue! Leave the sins of the tongue, and practise virtue with thy tongue!
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (163b)
When it is proper to act, do not use a word.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The First Method of Closing the Womb-Door (30.4)
Repeat this, from thine own mouth, distinctly; and remember its meaning vividly, and meditate upon it. The putting of this into practice is essential.
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XXVI. The Man Blind, Mute, and Bedeviled—doubting Pharisees Admonished—parables—"every Idle Word" (15)
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (352/353)
It is not a small danger for us to speak the truth about God; do not say anything about God before you have learned from God.
Dhammapada
Chapter X: Punishment (133)
Do not speak harshly to anybody; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful, blows for blows will touch thee.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 16: Of the noble Mind of the Understanding, Senses and Thoughts. Of the threefold Spirit and Will, and of the Tincture of the Inclination, and what is inbred in a Child in the Mother's Body [or Womb.] Of the Image of God, and of the bestial Image, and of the Image of the Abyss of Hell, and Similitude of the Devil, to be searched for, and found out in a [any] one Man. The noble Gate of the noble Virgin. And also the Gate of the Woman of this World, highly to be considered. (14)
First the King gives it to the Eyes, to see whether it be Good or Evil; and the Eyes give it to the Ears, to hear from whence it comes, whether out...
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (63)
But if it be not good, then the tongue spits or speweth it out, before it comes to the princely council.