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Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (319)
After God, honor a wise man, since he is the servant of God.
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...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (49)
The wise man is governed by God, and on this account is blessed. A scientific knowledge of God causes a man to use few words.
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (4)
Honor God above all things, that he may rule over you. Whatever you honor above all things, that which you so honor will have dominion over you. But...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (43)
He honors God in the best manner who renders his intellect as much as possible similar to God. If you injure no one, you will fear no one.
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (51)
The erudite, chaste, and wise soul, is the prophet of the truth of God. Accustom yourself always to look to Divinity. A wise intellect is the mirror...
Chuang Tzu
Man Among Men. (4)
Shall then such a one trouble whether man visits him with evil or with good? Man indeed regards him as a child; and this is to be a servant of God. "H...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XV: On the Different Kinds of Voluntary Actions, and the Sins Thence Proceeding. (13)
So Abraham was much to be praised, because "he walked as the Lord spake to him." Drawing from this instance, one of the wise men among the Greeks utte...
Dhammapada
Chapter VI: The Wise Man (Pandita) (76)
If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (47)
Divine wisdom is true science. You should not dare to speak of God to an impure soul. The wise man follows God, and God follows the soul of the wise...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It iS Heard By God. (19)
Consequently those who render the most free and kingly service, which is the result of a pious mind and of knowledge, are servants and attendants of...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (41)
He does not know God who does not worship him. The man who is worthy of God is also a God among men.
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (5)
The greatest honor which can be paid to God, is to know and imitate him. There is not any thing, indeed, which wholly resembles God; nevertheless the...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (34)
Invoke God as a witness to whatever you do. The bad man does not think there is a providence. Assert that which possesses wisdom in you, to be the...
Dhammapada
Chapter XV: Happiness (208)
Therefore, one ought to follow the wise, the intelligent, the learned, the much enduring, the dutiful, the elect; one ought to follow a good and wise ...
Bhagavad Gita
Vijnana Yoga (7.17)
Of these, the wise man, ever steadfast and devoted to the One alone, is the best. For supremely dear am I to the man of wisdom, and he is dear to Me.
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (48)
A king rejoices in those whom he governs, and therefore God rejoices in the wise man. He who governs likewise, is inseparable from those whom he...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (59)
The rational man is he who fears God. He who fears God does nothing insolent. And he who guards himself against doing anything insolent is one who kee...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter I: The Gnostic A True Worshipper of God, and Unjustly Calumniated By Unbelievers as An Atheist. (7)
For he is alone pious that serves God rightly and unblameably in human affairs.
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (35)
The wise man participates of God. Where that which is wise in you resides, there also is your good. That which is not noxious to the soul, is not...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XII: The True Gnostic Is Beneficent, Continent, and Despises Worldly Things. (7)
For "the fear of the Lord," it is said, "is the beginning of wisdom." But the perfect man, out of love, "beareth all things, endureth all things," "as...
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