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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: The Blessedness of the Martyr. (17)
No mortal exists who has not toil; He buries children, and begets others, And he himself dies, And thus mortals are afflicted."
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet X (16)
You have toiled without cease, and what have you got! Through toil you wear yourself out, you fill your body with grief, your long lifetime you are...
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (15)
Though deathless and possessed of sway o'er all, yet doth he suffer as a mortal doth, subject to Fate. Thus though above the Harmony, within the Harmo...
Corpus Hermeticum
3. The Sacred Sermon (4)
[Thus] there begins their living and their growing wise, according to the fate appointed by the revolution of the Cyclic Gods, and their deceasing...
Katha Upanishad
First Vallī (6)
A mortal ripens like corn, like corn he springs up again.'...
Katha Upanishad
Fourth Vallī (2)
Wise men only, knowing the nature of what is immortal, do not look for anything stable here among things unstable.'...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 22: Of the New Regeneration in Christ [from] out of the old Adamical Man. The Blossom of the Holy Bud. The noble Gate of the right [and] true Christianity. (4)
And now if we look round about us every where, upon Heaven and Earth, the Stars and Elements, yet we can see and know no Way [or Passage] where we may...
Bhagavad Gita
Sankhya Yoga (2.27)
Therefore you should not grieve over the unavoidable.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 9 (2)
When he has departed, his friends carry him, as appointed, to the fire (of the funeral pile) from whence he came, from whence he sprang....
Corpus Hermeticum
2. To Asclepius (17)
The other name of God is Father, again because He is the that-which-maketh-all. The part of father is to make. Wherefore child-making is a very great...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man. (9)
Here now all is clear [and manifest] in the Light; for he had lost the heavenly Fruit, which grew for him without Labour [or Toil of his;] and now he ...
Dhammapada
Chapter XX: The Way (287)
Death comes and carries off that man, praised for his children and flocks, his mind distracted, as a flood carries off a sleeping village.
The Masnavi
Moses and Pharaoh. 1 (1-10)
Destroy your house, and with the treasure hidden in it The treasure lies under it; there is no help for it; Hesitate not to pull it down; do not tarry...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXVII (6)
O Covetousness, that mortals dost ingulf Beneath thee so, that no one hath the power Of drawing back his eyes from out thy waves! Full fairly...
Dhammapada
Chapter X: Punishment (135)
As a cowherd with his staff drives his cows into the stable, so do Age and Death drive the life of men.
Katha Upanishad
First Vallī (28)
'What mortal, slowly decaying here below, and knowing, after having approached them, the freedom from decay enjoyed by the immortals, would delight...
Chuang Tzu
Knowledge Travels North. (13)
Joy and sorrow come and go, and over them I have no control. "Alas! the life of man is but as a stoppage at an inn. He knows that which comes within...
Book of Enoch
Chapter CII (7)
Behold, even as we, so do they die in grief and darkness, And what have they more than we? From henceforth we are equal.
Katha Upanishad
Fifth Vallī (5)
'No mortal lives by the breath that goes up and by the breath that goes down. We live by another, in whom these two repose.'