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Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (36)
He who unjustly expels a wise man from the body, confers a benefit on him by his iniquity. For he thus becomes liberated as it were, from bonds.
Bhagavad Gita
Sankhya Yoga (2.51)
For, men of wisdom cast off the fruit of action; possessed of knowledge (and) released from the bond of birth, they go to the place where there is no ...
Dhammapada
Chapter XIX: The Just (263)
He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.
Dhammapada
Chapter XX: The Way (289)
A wise and good man who knows the meaning of this, should quickly clear the way that leads to Nirvâna.
Dhammapada
Chapter VI: The Wise Man (Pandita) (87-88)
A wise man should leave the dark state (of ordinary life), and follow the bright state (of the Bhikshu). After going from his home to a homeless...
Bhagavad Gita
Jnana Yoga (4.23)
Of the man whose attachment is gone, who is liberated, whose mind is established in knowledge, who acts for the sake of sacrifice, — his whole action...
Bhagavad Gita
Sankhya Yoga (2.15)
That wise man whom, verily, these afflict not, O chief of men, to whom pleasure and pain are same, he for immortality is fit.
Bhagavad Gita
Daivāsura Sampad Vibhāga Yoga (16.22)
A man who is released from these, the three gates to darkness, O son of Kunti, does good to the self, and thereby reaches the Supreme Goal.
Dhammapada
Chapter XVIII: Impurity (239)
Let a wise man blow off the impurities of his self, as a smith blows off the impurities of silver one by one, little by little, and from time to time.
Tripartite Tractate
The Creation of Material Humanity (9)
This is the expulsion which was made for him, when he was expelled from the enjoyments of the things which belong to the likeness and those of the representation. It was a work of providence, so that it might be found that it is a short time until man will receive the enjoyment…
The Path of Light
Chapter 6: The Perfect Long-Suffering (13)
If a man doomed to death be released with one hand cut off, is it not well for him? and if one through human tribulations escapes hell, is it not...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXVI: The Brâhmana (Arhat) (390)
It advantages a Brâhmana not a little if he holds his mind back from the pleasures of life; when all wish to injure has vanished, pain will cease.
Bhagavad Gita
Mokṣha Sanyāsa Yoga (18.71)
And the man also who hears, full of faith and free from malice, even he, liberated, shall attain to the happy worlds of the righteous.
Dhammapada
Chapter XIII: The World (173)
He whose evil deeds are covered by good deeds, brightens up this world, like the moon when freed from clouds.
The Masnavi
The People of Saba (85-94)
If you do a kindness to a generous man, 'tis fitting, When you treat a base man with scorn and contumely, Infidels when enjoying prosperity do wrong, ...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXVII: The Law, Even in Correcting and Punishing, Aims At the Good Of Men. (2)
Besides, for the sake of bodily health we submit to incisions, and cauterizations, and medicinal draughts; and he who administers them is called...
Katha Upanishad
Second Vallī (12)
'The wise who, by means of meditation on his Self, recognises the Ancient, who is difficult to be seen, who has entered into the dark, who is hidden...
Dhammapada
Chapter VII: The Venerable (Arhat) (97)
The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka I, Khanda 2 (8)
Thus, as a ball of earth is scattered when hitting on a solid stone, will he be scattered who wishes evil to one who knows this, or who persecutes...
Bhagavad Gita
Puruṣhottama Yoga (15.10)
Him who departs, stays and enjoys, who is conjoined with gunas, the deluded perceive not; they see, who possess the eye of knowledge.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (4.3.8)
Verily, this person, by being born and obtaining a body, is joined with evils. When he departs, on dying, he leaves evils behind.
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