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Katha Upanishad
First Vallī (6)
'Look back how it was with those who came before, look forward how it will be with those who come hereafter. A mortal ripens like corn, like corn he springs up again.'
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Subject of Plagiarisms Resumed. the Greeks Plagiarized From One Another. (4)
The budding wood bears some; in time of spring, They come. So springs one race of men, and one departs."
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet X (16)
You have toiled without cease, and what have you got! Through toil you wear yourself out, you fill your body with grief, your long lifetime you are bringing near (to a premature end)!…
Corpus Hermeticum
3. The Sacred Sermon (4)
[Thus] there begins their living and their growing wise, according to the fate appointed by the revolution of the Cyclic Gods, and their deceasing...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 22: Of the New Regeneration in Christ [from] out of the old Adamical Man. The Blossom of the Holy Bud. The noble Gate of the right [and] true Christianity. (6)
Seeing then we clearly see and understand, that we have our Beginning altogether Earthly, and are sown in a Field (as Grain is sown in the Earth)...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 9 (3.9.28)
Then he [i.e. Yajnavalkya] questioned them with these verses: — As a tree of the forest, Just so, surely, is man. His hairs are leaves. His skin the...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: The Blessedness of the Martyr. (17)
No mortal exists who has not toil; He buries children, and begets others, And he himself dies, And thus mortals are afflicted."
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 9 (2)
When he has departed, his friends carry him, as appointed, to the fire (of the funeral pile) from whence he came, from whence he sprang....
Chuang Tzu
T'ien Tzŭ Fang. (4)
Is not that indeed a cause for sorrow? "Now you fix your attention upon something in me which, while you look, has already passed away. Yet you seek f...
The Masnavi
The Mule and the Camel (11-20)
The disciple's shadow is from that bough. When the shadows in the disciples cease, For, O fortunate one, how can the shadow move, Unless the tree...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book II (13)
From this root there grow and ripen the fruits of birth, of the life-span, of all that is tasted in life.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXIII: On Marriage. (7)
"For to a man after death his children bring renown, Just as corks bear the net, Saving the fishing-line from the deep." according to the tragic poet...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 22: Of the New Regeneration in Christ [from] out of the old Adamical Man. The Blossom of the Holy Bud. The noble Gate of the right [and] true Christianity. (4)
And now if we look round about us every where, upon Heaven and Earth, the Stars and Elements, yet we can see and know no Way [or Passage] where we may...
Chuang Tzu
Knowledge Travels North. (6)
"Tree-fruits and plant-fruits exhibit order in their varieties; and the relationships of man, though more difficult to be dealt with, may still be red...
The Masnavi
The Sage and the Peacock (61-70)
That you cling so to present existence, O simpleton? Since the latter of your states were better than the former, You have already seen hundreds of...
The Masnavi
How Adam was created out of a handful of earth brought by an Angel (31-40)
In like manner as the souls will fly into their clay, God will place in their hands their books of greed and liberality, Of sin and piety, and...
Dhammapada
Chapter X: Punishment (135)
As a cowherd with his staff drives his cows into the stable, so do Age and Death drive the life of men.
Mundaka Upanishad
First Mundaka, First Khanda (7)
'As the spider sends forth and draws in its thread, as plants grow on the earth, as from every man hairs spring forth on the head and the body, thus...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter III (14)
It is clear that Heraclitus regards birth as something evil when he says: "When men are born they are fain to live and suffer death," or rather go to...
Dhammapada
Chapter IV: Flowers (53)
As many kinds of wreaths can be made from a heap of flowers, so many good things may be achieved by a mortal when once he is born.
The Masnavi
The Deadly Mosque (54-63)
You issue from God's attributes at first; Return again back to those attributes with all speed! You come from the clouds and sunshine and sky, You...
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