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Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (322)
If someone brings the wise man out of the body wickedly, he rather does what is good for him, for he has been released from bonds.
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (36)
He who unjustly expels a wise man from the body, confers a benefit on him by his iniquity. For he thus becomes liberated as it were, from bonds.
The Path of Light
Chapter 6: The Perfect Long-Suffering (13)
If a man doomed to death be released with one hand cut off, is it not well for him? and if one through human tribulations escapes hell, is it not...
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...
Dhammapada
Chapter IX: Evil (120)
Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXVII: The Law, Even in Correcting and Punishing, Aims At the Good Of Men. (2)
Besides, for the sake of bodily health we submit to incisions, and cauterizations, and medicinal draughts; and he who administers them is called...
Dhammapada
Chapter XIX: The Just (263)
He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXVII: The Law, Even in Correcting and Punishing, Aims At the Good Of Men. (5)
And to prove that example corrects, he says directly to the purpose: "A clever man, when he seeth the wicked punished, will himself be severely chasti...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (4.3.36)
When he comes to weakness— whether he come to weakness through old age or through disease—this person frees himself from these limbs just as a mango,...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (90)
But if the spirit breaketh out of prison, then put it in again, make good thy part against it as long as thou livest, and if thou gettest so much adva...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XX: The True Gnostic Exercises Patience and Self - Restraint. (14)
"For if I persuade any one that the soul is undivided, and that the passions of the wicked are occasioned by the violence of the appendages, the...
Corpus Hermeticum
4. The Cup or Monad (7)
Now the choosing of the Better not only proves a lot most fair for him who makes the choice, seeing it makes the man a God, but also shows his piety...
Katha Upanishad
Second Vallī (2)
Yea, the wise prefers the good to the pleasant, but the fool chooses the pleasant through greed and avarice.'...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIV: Thirst (346)
That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but is difficult to undo; after having cut this at last, people leave the world, free...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XI: Description of the Gnostic's Life. (7)
Accordingly, then, in involuntary circumstances, by withdrawing himself from troubles to the things which really belong to him, he is not carried...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter I: Preface. the Author's Object. the Utility of Written Compositions. (18)
"In a man who loves wisdom the father will be glad." Wells, when pumped out, yield purer water; and that of which no one partakes, turns to...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter III: The Gnostic Aims At the Nearest Likeness Possible to God and His Son. (6)
And if ever placed in authority, like Moses, he will rule for the salvation of the governed; and will tame wildness and faithlessness, by recording ho...
Dhammapada
Chapter IX: Evil (116)
If a man would hasten towards the good, he should keep his thought away from evil; if a man does what is good slothfully, his mind delights in evil.
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (122)
But if the house of flesh be once destroyed, and that the soul is not yet conquered or vanquished in its house, but is free and unimprisoned, then the...
Testimony of Truth
Testimony of Truth (14)
... he having [...] as he again [...], fighting against thoughts of the archons and the powers and the demons, not giving them a place in which to...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (60)
This signifieth that the corrupted fierceness is thrust out eternally from the light of God, but the inward spirit, which is loaded therewith against...
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