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Passages similar to: Bundahishn — Chapter XXIV
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Bundahishn
Chapter XXIV (30)
The conclusion is this, that every one who performs a great duty has then much value.
Dhammapada
Chapter XII: Self (166)
Let no one forget his own duty for the sake of another's, however great; let a man, after he has discerned his own duty, be always attentive to his...
Bhagavad Gita
Mokṣha Sanyāsa Yoga (18.47)
Better is one’s own duty though destitute of merits or incomplete than the duty of another well performed; the man who performs action ordained by...
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Yoga (3.35)
One’s own duty, ill-performed and without merit, is better than the duty of another well-discharged. Better is death in discharging one’s own duty....
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Yoga (3.21)
What-so-ever a great man does, that other men do; whatever he sets up as the standard, that the world follows.
Dhammapada
Chapter XVI: Pleasure (217)
He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear.
Life of Pythagoras
FROM ARCHYTAS, IN HIS TREATISE ON THE GOOD AND HAPPY MAN. (1)
I say then that the good man is one who uses in a beautiful manner great things and opportunities. He likewise is able to bear well both prosperity...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It iS Heard By God. (19)
Consequently those who render the most free and kingly service, which is the result of a pious mind and of knowledge, are servants and attendants of...
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Yoga (3.19)
He who performs all the prescribed duties in a detached spirit will attain the Supreme.