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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter IV: The Heathens Made Gods Like Themselves, Whence Springs All Superstition. (10)
" B. Most likely, silly fool, For it was rotten, and you, niggard, you Would not buy new ones."
The Masnavi
The Three Fishes (47-55)
The second counsel I gave you was this, namely, 'Be not misguided enough to believe foolish assertions.' O fool, altogether I do not weigh three...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXIX (6)
Not for a certainty the French by far." Whereat the other leper, who had heard me, Replied unto my speech: "Taking out Stricca, Who knew the art of mo...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto VII (3)
Forever shall they come to these two buttings; These from the sepulchre shall rise again With the fist closed, and these with tresses shorn. Ill givin...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (166)
O, why do I pity thee, thou stinking goat? O thou cursed stinking devil! how hast thou spoiled us? How wilt thou excuse thyself? What wilt thou...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXII (3)
My mother placed me servant to a lord, For she had borne me to a ribald knave, Destroyer of himself and of his things. Then I domestic was of good...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXX (5)
One the false woman is who accused Joseph, The other the false Sinon, Greek of Troy; From acute fever they send forth such reek." And one of them,...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCVIII (9)
Woe to you, ye fools, for through your folly shall ye perish: and ye transgress against the wise, and so good hap shall not be your portion.
The Masnavi
The Sufi's Beast (71-79)
Wisdom breaks away from you and takes to flight! 0n Taqlid, blind imitation or cant. "O wretch, why did you not come and say to me, 'Such and such a...
Pyramid Texts
Texts Of Miscellaneous Contents, Utterances 540-552 (549)
1349 To say: Back, Bbwi, red-eared, with coloured hind-quarters, 1349 pass thou the cutlet, from thy chapel (or, of thy lady), over thy mouth.
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXX (6)
"Rueful to thee the thirst be wherewith cracks Thy tongue," the Greek said, "and the putrid water That hedges so thy paunch before thine eyes." Then...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXV (7)
Then did he turn upon him his new shoulders, And said to the other: "I'll have Buoso run, Crawling as I have done, along this road." In this way I...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XIX (3)
I stood even as the friar who is confessing The false assassin, who, when he is fixed, Recalls him, so that death may be delayed. And he cried out:...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Bacon, Shakspere, and the Rosicrucians (28)
Similes appears the following significant allusion: "Like as men would laugh at a poore man, if having precious garments lent him to act and play the ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 24: Of True Repentance: How the poor Sinner may come to God again in his Covenant, and how he may be released of his Sins. The Gate of the Justification of a poor Sinner before God. A clear Looking-Glass. (14)
O! what Mischief I do to myself, in making myself the Fool of the World! What do I get by it but Scorn and Disgrace? Mirrors. 1 am not sure of my...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 20: Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World. And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church. (16)
If we did not see thee, we would be silent. Thou boastest now (by the Flatterers) of a golden Time; but they are most of them Wolves of Babel; when th...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXII (2)
These words excited Statius at first Somewhat to laughter; afterward he answered: "Each word of thine is love's dear sign to me. Verily oftentimes do...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (13)
And he crowns himself with ignorance, and takes his seat upon a throne of nescience. For while he is without reason, he leads only himself astray, for...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXIII (2)
I do not think that so to merest rind Could Erisichthon have been withered up By famine, when most fear he had of it. Thinking within myself I said:...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XIX (4)
Beneath my head the others are dragged down Who have preceded me in simony, Flattened along the fissure of the rock. Below there I shall likewise...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (80)
Come on, brave Sir, upon thy brown nag! thou who ridest from heaven into hell, and from hell into death, and therein the sting of the devil lies....
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