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Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (393)
Guard yourself from lying; there is he who deceives and there is he who is deceived.
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.
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (15)
Then he that will not take heed and beware of his lies, while he may very well do it, there is no remedy for him neither here nor hereafter: he that...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 45: A good declaring of some certain deceits that may befall in this work (3)
This deceit of false feeling, and of false knowing following thereon, hath diverse and wonderful variations, after the diversity of states and the...
Gospel of Mary
Chapter 4 (34)
Beware that no one lead you astray saying Lo here or lo there! For the Son of Man is within you.
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...
The Masnavi
The Prophet's Scribe (21-29)
Have a care lest one day they prevail over you! He in whose breast the leaf of true faith is grown Thou makest a mock of Iblis and the Devil, Because...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (24)
The wise man is always similar to himself. The knowledge and imitation of divinity, are alone sufficient to beatitude. Use lying as poison.
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. (87)
And do not rely upon the Hypocrisy of the Antichrist, he is a Liar, and Covetous, and a Dissembler; he minds only his Idol the Belly, and is a Thief i...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XV: The Objection to Join the Church on Account of the Diversity of Heresies Answered. (14)
Now, of those who diverge from the truth, some attempt to deceive themselves alone, and some also their neighbours. Those, then, who are called...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 53 — Vahishtoishti Gatha (6)
[Thus real are these things, ye men and ye women !] from the Lie-demon protecting, I guard o’er my (faithful), and so (I) grant progress (in weal and...
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.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (78)
He stands in the Gate of the Mind, where the Soul stands (before the clear Face of God) in the opened Gate; and all thy Abominations are known before ...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (73)
Then beware, lest somehow you fall into the hands of robbers. Do not allow sleep to your eyes nor drowsiness to your eyelids, that you may be saved...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 45 — Ushtavaiti Gatha (1)
Yea, I will speak forth; hear ye; now listen, ye who from near, and ye who from afar have come seeking (the knowledge). Now ponder ye clearly all...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter III: The Objects of Faith and Hope Perceived By the Mind Alone. (9)
"But it is strongly incumbent to disbelieve the dominant wicked, And as is enjoined by the assurance of our muse, Know by dissecting the utterance...
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC ETHICAL SENTENCES FROM STOBÆUS, Which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, &c. of Gale. (9)
Be sober, and remember to be disposed to believe; for these are the nerves of wisdom. Epicharmus. It is better to live lying on the grass, confiding...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: The Blessedness of the Martyr. (1)
Then he who has lied and shown himself unfaithful, and revolted to the devil's army, in what evil do we think him to be? He belies, therefore, the...
The Masnavi
Mo'avia and Iblis (54-63)
Truth is the "night of power " hidden amongst other nights, Not every night is that of power, O youth, In the crowd of rag-wearers there is but one...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (32)
Do not trust anyone as a friend, for this whole world has come into being deceitfully, and every man is troubled in vain. All things of the world are...
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.
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