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Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (165a)
It is better for you to be defeated while speaking the truth, than to be victorious through deceit.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VIII: The Sophistical Arts Useless. (9)
For to cheat one's self of the truth is bad; but to speak the truth, and to hold as our opinions positive realities, is good.
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
The Letters, Letter VI: To Sopatros --Priest (1)
Do not imagine this a victory, holy Sopatros, to have denounced a devotion, or an opinion, which apparently is not good. For neither--even if you...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter IX: Reasons for Veiling the Truth in Symbols. (6)
"To win the flowers of fair renown from men, Be not induced to speak aught more than right."
Dhammapada
Chapter XV: Happiness (201)
Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy. He who has given up both victory and defeat, he, the contented, is happy.
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC SENTENCES, FROM THE PROTREPTICS OF IAMBLICHUS. [96] (3)
We should confide in Virtue as in a chaste wife; but trust to Fortune as to an inconstant mistress. It is better that virtue should be received...
Dhammapada
Chapter VIII: The Thousands (104-105)
One's own self conquered is better than all other people; not even a god, a Gandharva, not Mâra with Brahman could change into defeat the victory of...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (74)
Fight the great fight as long as the fight lasts, while all the powers are staring after you - not only the holy ones, but also all the powers of the...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VIII: The Sophistical Arts Useless. (8)
For we do not practise what will please them, but what we know is remote from their disposition. "Let us not be desirous of vainglory,," says the apos...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XVII (6)
The light in which was smiling my own treasure Which there I had discovered, flashed at first As in the sunshine doth a golden mirror; Then made...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (87)
Do not wish to acquire honors which are insecure, nor the boastfulness which brings you to ruin.
The Path of Light
Chapter 7: The Perfect Strength (8)
I am standing by? If I in my pride will not do it, better it is that my pride perish. The very crow becomes a Garuda when he lights upon a dead...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (6)
For if you find these, you will despise them as deniers of truth. They will speak to you, cajoling you and enticing (you), not because they are afraid...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter I: Introductory. (4)
"He who reproves boldly is a peacemaker." We lave often said already that we have neither practised nor do we study the expressing ourselves in pure...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXIV (24)
Of two men, when they come forward together, the wiser and more truthful is chief.
Theologia Germanica
Chapter XLI (41.2)
It is the same with justice. Many a man knoweth full well what is just or unjust, and yet neither is nor ever will become a just man. For he loveth no...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (44)
No one is wise who looks downward to the earth. To lie is to deceive in life, and to be deceived.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VIII: The Sophistical Arts Useless. (6)
But now in fluent mouths the weightiest truths They disguise, so that they do not seem what they ought to seem," says the tragedy. Such are these wran...
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
The Letters, Letter VII: To Polycarp--Hierarch (1)
I, at any rate, am not conscious, when speaking in reply to Greeks or others, of fancying to assist good men, in case they should be able to know and...
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC SENTENCES, FROM THE PROTREPTICS OF IAMBLICHUS. [96] (5)
It is equally dangerous to give a sword to a madman, and power to a depraved man. As it is better for a part of the body which contains purulent...
Dhammapada
Chapter XVII: Anger (223)
Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!
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