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Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (165b)
He who is victorious through deceit is defeated by the truth.
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.
Dhammapada
Chapter I: The Twin-Verses (11)
They who imagine truth in untruth, and see untruth in truth, never arrive at truth, but follow vain desires.
Dhammapada
Chapter VIII: The Thousands (103)
If one man conquer in battle a thousand times thousand men, and if another conquer himself, he is the greatest of conquerors.
Dhammapada
Chapter I: The Twin-Verses (12)
They who know truth in truth, and untruth in untruth, arrive at truth, and follow true desires.
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...
Dhammapada
Chapter XII: Self (162)
He whose wickedness is very great brings himself down to that state where his enemy wishes him to be, as a creeper does with the tree which it...
Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching (68)
He who in (Tao's) wars has skill Assumes no martial port; He who fights with most good will To rage makes no resort. He who vanquishes yet still...
Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching (36)
When one is about to take an inspiration, he is sure to make a (previous) expiration; when he is going to weaken another, he will first strengthen...
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.
Dhammapada
Chapter XVI: Pleasure (217)
He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Hiramic Legend (23)
Orpheus was murdered, and his body thrown into the Hebrus; Socrates was made to drink the hemlock; and, in all ages, we have seen Evil temporarily tri...
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...
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (61)
Just in this manner, and no other, thou sittest, when thou art in the pleasures of the flesh; if thou wilt not fight, thou canst not look for any...
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!
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...
Mundaka Upanishad
Third Mundaka, First Khanda (6)
The true prevails, not the untrue; by the true the path is laid out, the way of the gods (devayânah), on which the old sages, satisfied in their...
Dhammapada
Chapter V: The Fool (72)
And when the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.
The Masnavi
The Man who made a Pet of a Bear. 1 (31-40)
What is it that charms vain men but vanity? What else pleases the foolish but folly? Because each kind is charmed by its own kind, Does a cow ever see...
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.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (112)
He, then, who is not obedient to the truth, and is puffed up with human teaching, is wretched and miserable, according to Euripides: "Who these...
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