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The Path of Light
Chapter 8: The Perfect Contemplation (3)
It is well to flee from the foolish. If he come in thy way, seek to win him over by kindness, not so as to hold commerce with him, but in a manner of godly indifference. I will take from him only enough for the holy life, as the bee takes honey from the flower; thus in every place I will hold myself from commerce with him, like the new moon.
Dhammapada
Chapter IX: Evil (123)
Let a man avoid evil deeds, as a merchant, if he has few companions and carries much wealth, avoids a dangerous road; as a man who loves life avoids...
Dhammapada
Chapter IV: Flowers (49)
As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its colour or scent, so let a sage dwell in his village.
Dhammapada
Chapter V: The Fool (61)
If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a...
Katha Upanishad
Second Vallī (2)
Yea, the wise prefers the good to the pleasant, but the fool chooses the pleasant through greed and avarice.'...
The Masnavi
The Merchant and his Clever Parrot (1-11)
As to a "man of heart," he takes no hurt, He who gains health from practicing abstinence is safe; The prophet said, "O disciple, though you be bold,...
The Masnavi
The Building of the "Most Remote Temple" at Jerusalem (182-191)
Ho! seek aid of Him, not of another than Him Seek water in the ocean, not in a dried-up channel. On cleansing the inward temple of the heart from...
Dhammapada
Chapter XV: Happiness (207)
He who walks in the company of fools suffers a long way; company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful; company with the wise is pleasure,...
The Masnavi
The Building of the "Most Remote Temple" at Jerusalem (242-251)
Cleverness is as a wind raising storms of pride; Be foolish, so that your heart may be at peace; Not with the folly that doubles itself by vain...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIII: The Elephant (330)
It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool; let a man walk alone, let him commit no sin, with few wishes, like an elephant in...
The Masnavi
The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass (12-21)
What need has He to wheedle a worm like Moses?" O babbler, while thy soul is drunk with mere date wine, For the token of thy having seen that divine...
Dhammapada
Chapter II: On Earnestness (26)
Fools follow after vanity, men of evil wisdom. The wise man keeps earnestness as his best jewel.
The Masnavi
The Three Fishes (11-19)
He wanders into the boundless desert, Sometimes halting and despairing, sometimes running. He has no lamp wherewith to light himself on his way, He...
The Masnavi
The Three Fishes (1-10)
The marks of the wise man, of the half wise, and of the fool. The wise man is he who possesses a torch of his own; That leader is his own director...
The Masnavi
Bayazid and the Saint (61-70)
If you take counsel with your lust, Even though it enjoin prayers and fasting, It is treacherously laying a snare for you.' You must abandon and...
The Masnavi
The Man who was Tattooed (21-30)
Every man takes refuge in some form of service, And chooses for himself some asylum; Do thou seek refuge in the shadow of the wise man, Of all forms...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (1)
Courteous Reader, here I would have you faithfully admonished, to let go your Opinion and Conceit, and not to gaze after the Heathenish Wisdom, nor...
Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (144)
Direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the Earth; for the Plant of Truth grows not upon the ground. Nor measure the motions of the Sun,...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Knowledge of God Can Be Attained Only Through Faith. (1)
"In all thy ways acknowledge her, that she may direct thy ways, and that thy foot may not stumble." By these remarks he means to show that our deeds o...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIII: The Elephant (329)
If a man find no prudent companion who walks with him, is wise, and lives soberly, let him walk alone, like a king who has left his conquered country...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (24)
The wise man is always similar to himself. The knowledge and imitation of divinity, are alone sufficient to beatitude. Use lying as poison.
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