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Dhammapada
Chapter V: The Fool (65)
If an intelligent man be associated for one minute only with a wise man, he will soon perceive the truth, as the tongue perceives the taste of soup.
Bundahishn
Chapter XXIV (24)
Of two men, when they come forward together, the wiser and more truthful is chief.
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...
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC ETHICAL SENTENCES FROM STOBÆUS, Which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, &c. of Gale. (7)
When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.
The Masnavi
The Gluttonous Sufi (51-59)
To the wise, whose hearts are enlightened, The mere sound of that voice proves its truth." "When you say to a thirsty man, 'Come quickly; This is...
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...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter IV: Human Arts as Well as Divine Knowledge Proceed From God. (3)
Those who are wise in mind have a certain attribute of nature peculiar to themselves; and they who have shown themselves capable, receive from the...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It iS Heard By God. (2)
Such an one is persuaded that God is ever beside him, and does not suppose that He is confined in certain limited places; so that under the idea that ...
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.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VIII: Philosophy Is Knowledge Given By God. (6)
Especially he will be found to know the truth, if not so as to comprehend it, yet so as not to be unacquainted with it.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Theory and Practice of Alchemy: Part Two (6)
It is further asserted that they are still to be found by those who have qualified themselves to contact them. The philosophers taught that like...
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...
The Republic
Book VI (485)
What quality? Truthfulness: they will never intentionally receive into their mind falsehood, which is their detestation, and they will love the truth....
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter I: Preface. the Author's Object. the Utility of Written Compositions. (25)
For most benefits are supplied, from God, through men. All of us who make use of our eyes see what is presented before them. But some look at objects ...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (23)
The intellect of the wise man is always with divinity. God dwells in the intellect of the wise man. Every desire is insatiable, and therefore is...
The Masnavi
The Three Fishes (1-10)
The marks of the wise man, of the half wise, and of the fool. The wise man is he who possesses a torch of his own; That leader is his own director...
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...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XI: The Knowledge Which Comes Through Faith the Surest of All. (10)
Well, then, if the Lord is the truth, and wisdom, and power of God, as in truth He is, it is shown that the real Gnostic is he that knows Him, and...
The Path of Light
Chapter 8: The Perfect Contemplation (2)
If he share in the life of the foolish, a man assuredly goes to hell; if he share it not, he wins hatred; what profits it to have commerce with the...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVII: Passages From Clement's Epistle to the Corinthians on Martyrdom. (10)
Let the wise man, then, show his wisdom not in words only, but in good deeds.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Conclusion (33)
Following the path pointed out by the wise, the seeker after truth ultimately attains to the summit of wisdom's mount, and gazing down, beholds the...
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