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Passages similar to: Stromata (Miscellanies) — Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews.
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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (75)
If one, by nature evil, evil does, Let him redeem the time; for such as he Shall by and by due punishment receive."
Theologia Germanica
Chapter XVII (17.2)
But if any now will excuse himself for sin, by refusing to take what is evil unto himself, and laying the guilt thereof upon the Evil Spirit, and thus...
Dhammapada
Chapter IX: Evil (116)
If a man would hasten towards the good, he should keep his thought away from evil; if a man does what is good slothfully, his mind delights in evil.
Dhammapada
Chapter IX: Evil (120)
Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 4: Of the shortness of this work, and how it may not be come to by the curiosity of wit, nor by imagination (4)
In one little time, as little as it is, may heaven be won and lost. A token it is that time is precious: for God, that is given of time, giveth never ...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto VII (4)
The more conformed thereto, the more it pleases; For the blest ardour that irradiates all things In that most like itself is most vivacious. With all...
Dhammapada
Chapter IX: Evil (117)
If a man commits a sin, let him not do it again; let him not delight in sin: pain is the outcome of evil.
Dhammapada
Chapter IX: Evil (119)
Even an evil-doer sees happiness as long as his evil deed has not ripened; but when his evil deed has ripened, then does the evil-doer see evil.
Book of Enoch
Chapter CVIII (2)
Ye who have done good shall wait for those days till an end is made of those who work evil; and an end of the might of the transgressors.
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (15)
Then he that will not take heed and beware of his lies, while he may very well do it, there is no remedy for him neither here nor hereafter: he that...
Dhammapada
Chapter V: The Fool (69)
As long as the evil deed done does not bear fruit, the fool thinks it is like honey; but when it ripens, then the fool suffers grief.
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 46 — Ushtavaiti Gatha (8)
But bearing back the (evil will and evil influence of such), let these things come (back) to him in anger. Let that to his body come which holds from ...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 46 — Ushtavaiti Gatha (6)
(And he who leaves him in his guilty error has my curse.) Yea, he who has the power , and will not thus (with stern reproof ) approach him, shall go...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 33 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (2)
Yea, (he will act with justice but with vengeance, for) he who does evil to the wicked by word, or with thought (and plan), and (who therein does not...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (27)
An evil disposition is the disease of the soul; but injustice and impiety are the death of it. Use all men in such a way, as if you were the common...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 29: That a man should bidingly travail in this work, and suffer the pain thereof, and judge no man (2)
All men have travail in this work; both sinners, and innocents that never sinned greatly. But far greater travail have those that have been sinners...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (28)
He who uses mankind badly, uses himself badly. Wish that you may be able to benefit your enemies. Endure all things, in order that you may live...
The Masnavi
The Youth who wrote a letter of complaint about his rations to the King (23-32)
'Twould have avoided hypocrisy now and misery at last. 'Twould have sought the alchemy of grace in due time; If it became broken-hearted through its...
Dhammapada
Chapter I: The Twin-Verses (17)
The evil-doer suffers in this world, and he suffers in the next; he suffers in both. He suffers when he thinks of the evil he has done; he suffers...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 29: That a man should bidingly travail in this work, and suffer the pain thereof, and judge no man (1)
AND therefore, whoso coveteth to come to cleanness that he lost for sin, and to win to that well‑being where all woe wanteth, him behoveth bidingly to...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXII: The Downward Course (314)
An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.
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