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Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (165c)
Untrue words are a characteristic of evil persons.
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.
Apocryphon of James
Be Eager for the Word (7)
"Come to hate hypocrisy and evil intention. Intention produces hypocrisy, and hypocrisy is far from truth.
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.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCIV (6)
Woe to those who build unrighteousness and oppression And lay deceit as a foundation; For they shall be suddenly overthrown, And they shall have no...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 54: How that by virtue of this work a man is governed full wisely, and made full seemly as well in body as in soul (4)
Truly I trow, unless they have grace to leave off such piping hypocrisy, that betwixt that privy pride in their hearts within and such meek words with...
The Masnavi
The Lover and his Mistress (40-48)
Who do not possess the qualities implied, 'tis wrong; 'Twould be jesting or mockery or madness. "God is exalted above" what is said by evil men. I...
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 (29)
Do not put maliciousness in your judgment, for every malicious man harms his heart. For only a foolish man is wont to his destruction, but a wise man...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 25: The Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God: Also of his Ascension into Heaven, and sitting at the Right-hand of God his Father. The Gate of our Misery; and also the strong Gate of the Divine Power in his Love. (56)
Thus Falsehood is wrought with Falsehood, and the Inferior is become false also, who has set Lies to Sale for Truth, and so falsly cheated his...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCIX (12)
Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures, And (to them) who cause bitterness on the earth; For they shall thereby be utterly consumed.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCVIII (15)
Woe to you who write down lying and godless words; for they write down their lies that men may hear them and act godlessly towards (their) neighbour.
Dhammapada
Chapter XIX: The Just (262)
An envious, greedy, dishonest man does not become respectable by means of much talking only, or by the beauty of his complexion.
Dhammapada
Chapter XVIII: Impurity (242)
Bad conduct is the taint of woman, greediness the taint of a benefactor; tainted are all evil ways in this world and in the next.
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (9)
Christ saith, The devil was a Murderer [John viii. 44] and liar from the beginning, and did not stand in the truth. But seeing these justifiers and...
Dhammapada
Chapter XIII: The World (176)
If a man has transgressed one law, and speaks lies, and scoffs at another world, there is no evil he will not do.
Dhammapada
Chapter III: Thought (42)
Whatever a hater may do to a hater, or an enemy to an enemy, a wrongly-directed mind will do us greater mischief.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VIII: The Sophistical Arts Useless. (7)
Accordingly I wholly approve of the tragedy, when it says: "O son, false words can be well spoken, And truth may be vanquished by beauty of words.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXIII (17)
For all have done evil, and every mouth speaketh iniquity* and all their works are an uncleanness and an abom- ination, and all their ways are polluti...
Dhammapada
Chapter IX: Evil (125)
If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XXVI. The Man Blind, Mute, and Bedeviled—doubting Pharisees Admonished—parables—"every Idle Word" (14)
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the...
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