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The Masnavi
The Building of the "Most Remote Temple" at Jerusalem (212-221)
Who give you good advice not to do that act; Saying to them, "This is right and quite proper; Who dissuades me from it but men of no account?" Does a man acting on compulsion talk like this? Or rather one who is erring of his own freewill? Whatever your lust wills you deem freewill, Whoso is wise and prudent knows this, That cleverness comes from Iblis, but love from Adam. Cleverness is like Canaan's swimming in the ocean; 'Tis no river or small stream; 'tis the mighty ocean.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Third Method of Closing the Womb-Door (32.6)
Reject the feelings of attraction or repulsion, and remember one method of closing the womb-door which I am going to show to thee. Close the...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XIV. The Sermon on the Mount: the Beatitudes, Admonitions, Precepts (19)
¶Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: but I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust...
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (178)
What it is not right to do, do not even consider doing it.
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (29)
By honoring a wise man, you will honor yourself. In all your actions place God before your eyes. You are permitted to refuse matrimony, in order that...
Bhagavad Gita
Sankhya Yoga (2.3)
O Arjuna! Do not yield to impotence. It does not befit you. Cast off this wretched weakness of heart. Arise, O scorcher of enemies!
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCIV (5)
And hold fast my words in the thoughts of your hearts, And suffer them not to be effaced from your hearts; For I know that sinners will tempt men to e...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (50)
O my son, strip off the old garment of fornication, and put on the garment which is clean and shining, that you may be beautiful in it. But when you...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Bardo Body: Its Birth and Its Supernormal Faculties (23.8)
At that time, follow not the visions which appear to thee. Be not attracted; be not weak: if, through weakness, thou be fond of them, thou wilt have...
Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (150)
It becometh you not to behold them before your body is initiated, since by always alluring they seduce the souls from the sacred mysteries.
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (74)
Now if one member stirreth too much, and at any time hurteth a princely counsellor; (as by seeing, it would be in love with that which it ought not...
Dhammapada
Chapter XIV: The Buddha (The Awakened) (186)
There is no satisfying lusts, even by a shower of gold pieces; he who knows that lusts have a short taste and cause pain, he is wise;
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (6.4.9)
The woman whom one may desire with the thought, ' May she enjoy love with me! ' — after coming together with her, joining mouth with mouth, and...
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. (56)
But the right Love and Fidelity (in the Fear of God) covers it before the Countenance of God; and (through the Sun of the Virgin) it is regenerated to...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (49)
It is a great and good thing not to love fornication, and not even to think of the wretched matter at all, for to think of it is death. It is not...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XX. The Twelve by Name—the Sermon in the Plain: Benisons and Admonitions, Precepts, the Golden Rule Again), Judge Not, Give (17)
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 51: That men should have great wariness so that they understand not bodily a thing that is meant ghostly; and specially it is good to be wary in understanding of this word in, and of this word up (1)
I mean not in thy bodily heart, but in thy ghostly heart, the which is thy will. And be well wary that thou conceive not bodily that that is said ghos...
Dhammapada
Chapter XX: The Way (283)
Cut down the whole forest (of lust), not a tree only! Danger comes out of the forest (of lust). When you have cut down both the forest (of lust) and...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (5)
Oh wretched man, what will you do if you fall into their hands? Protect yourself, lest you be delivered into the hands of your enemies. Entrust...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
V. Christ's Long Fast in the Wilderness—satan's Futile Wiles (7)
It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC ETHICAL SENTENCES FROM STOBÆUS, Which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, &c. of Gale. (1)
Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done. Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body.
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