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Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (360)
Do not wish to speak with a crowd about God.
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (39)
Speak not of God to every man. It is dangerous, and the danger is not small, to speak of God even things which are true.
The Masnavi
The Elephant in a Dark Room (32-41)
Keep silence, that you may hear Him speaking Keep silence, that you may hear from that Sun Keep silence, that the Spirit may speak to you; Give up...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (94)
I do not write this, and bring it to light, that others after me should presently fall a writing, and publish the conceits of their own spirit...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of God (19)
Although the Koran says, "Every living creature's support comes from God," it is also written, "Man obtains nothing except by striving." The fact is, ...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (40)
A true assertion respecting God, is an assertion of God. You should not dare to speak of God to the multitude.
Book of Enoch
Chapter CIV (9)
Be not godless in your hearts, and lie not and alter not the words of uprightness, nor charge with lying the words of the Holy Great One, nor take...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (85)
And be not as the merchants of the Word of God.
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LI. Sermon to the Innumerable Multitude: Precepts, Parables: the Sparrows, the Self-Centered Rich Man, the Ravens, the Lilies—"the Hairs of Your Head Are Numbered"—"let Your Lights Be Burning" (6)
And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall ...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XXX A (3)
Let there be no estoppel against me through evidence; let not hindrance be made to me by the Divine Circle; let there not be a fall of the scale...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XXX B (8)
Let not lies be uttered in presence of the great god, Lord of the Amenta
Dhammapada
Chapter XVII: Anger (224)
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XXX B (3)
Let there be no estoppel against me through evidence, let no hindrance be made to me by the divine Circle; fall thou not against me in presence of...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter X: To Act Well of Greater Consequence Than to Speak Well. (5)
Accordingly, the blessed apostle very appropriately and urgently exhorts us "not to strive about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the...
Dhammapada
Chapter XIII: The World (167)
Do not follow the evil law! Do not live on in thoughtlessness! Do not follow false doctrine! Be not a friend of the world.
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC ETHICAL SENTENCES FROM STOBÆUS, Which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, &c. of Gale. (24)
Pythagoras said, that it was either requisite to be silent, or to say something better than silence. Stob. p. 215.
Asclepius
Section XXIII (1)
Still, of the rest, the vicious folk, we ought to say no word, for fear a very sacred sermon should be spoiled by thinking of them.
Book of Enoch
Chapter CIII (9)
Say not in regard to the righteous and good who are in life: "In our troubled days we have toiled laboriously and experienced every trouble, And met...
Bhagavad Gita
Mokṣha Sanyāsa Yoga (18.68)
He who with supreme devotion in me will teach this profound philosophy to my devotees shall doubtless come to me alone.
An-Nawawi's Forty Hadiths
Hadith Collection (15)
Abu Hurairah narrated that the messenger of Allah said: "Let him who believes in Allah and the Last Day either speak good or keep silent, and let him...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XXXIX (14)
Let no evil hindrances come forth against me from thy mouth in what thou doest towards me
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