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Dhammapada
Chapter V: The Fool (66)
Fools of little understanding have themselves for their greatest enemies, for they do evil deeds which must bear bitter fruits.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCVIII (9)
Woe to you, ye fools, for through your folly shall ye perish: and ye transgress against the wise, and so good hap shall not be your portion.
Mundaka Upanishad
First Mundaka, Second Khanda (8)
Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, and puffed up with vain knowledge, go round and round staggering to and fro, like blind men...
Katha Upanishad
Second Vallī (5)
'Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, and puffed up with vain knowledge, go round and round, staggering to and fro, like blind men...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (13)
And he crowns himself with ignorance, and takes his seat upon a throne of nescience. For while he is without reason, he leads only himself astray, for...
Bhagavad Gita
Daivāsura Sampad Vibhāga Yoga (16.9)
Holding such a view, these lost souls of little understanding and fierce deeds rise as the enemies of the world for its destruction.
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...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 24: Of True Repentance: How the poor Sinner may come to God again in his Covenant, and how he may be released of his Sins. The Gate of the Justification of a poor Sinner before God. A clear Looking-Glass. (14)
O! what Mischief I do to myself, in making myself the Fool of the World! What do I get by it but Scorn and Disgrace? Mirrors. 1 am not sure of my...
The Path of Light
Chapter 6: The Perfect Long-Suffering (5)
In heedlessness, wrath, or lust for women and other things beyond their reach, men bring themselves into distress from thorns, lack of food, and the...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (29)
Do not put maliciousness in your judgment, for every malicious man harms his heart. For only a foolish man is wont to his destruction, but a wise man...
The Path of Light
Chapter 8: The Perfect Contemplation (5)
Living beings are of diverse character; not even the Conquerors can content them, much less simple souls such as I. Then why think of the world? They...
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. (29)
Thus also, when we fall from God, and rely upon our own Reason, we are [but] Fools.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 9: Of the Paradise, and then of the Transitoriness of all Creatures; how all take their Beginning and End; and to what End they here appeared. The Noble and most precious Gate [or Explanation] concerning the reasonable Soul. (45)
For he is to be esteemed a very simple Person, in Comparison of the great learned Men: But Christ saith; My Power is strong in the Weak: Yea Father, i...
Bhagavad Gita
Śhraddhā Traya Vibhāga Yoga (17.5)
Those vain and conceited men who, impelled by the force of their lust and attachment, subject themselves to severe austerities not ordained by the...
Bhagavad Gita
Rāja Vidyā Yoga (9.12)
Being of the deceitful nature of fiends and demons, they cherish vain hopes, perform vain actions, pursue vain knowledge, and are devoid of judgement.
Testimony of Truth
Testimony of Truth (5)
The foolish - thinking in their heart that if they confess, "We are Christians," in word only (but) not with power, while giving themselves over to...
Theologia Germanica
Chapter XLIV (44.3)
It is a great folly when a man, or any creature, dreameth that he knoweth or can accomplish aught of himself, and above all when he dreameth that he...
The Masnavi
The Building of the "Most Remote Temple" at Jerusalem (242-251)
Cleverness is as a wind raising storms of pride; Be foolish, so that your heart may be at peace; Not with the folly that doubles itself by vain...
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Yoga (3.32)
But those who carp at my teaching and do not practise it, know them as men deluded in all knowledge, devoid of discrimination and doomed to destructio...
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (174)
The sins of those who are ignorant are the shame of those who have taught them.
Mundaka Upanishad
First Mundaka, Second Khanda (10)
Considering sacrifice and good works as the best, these fools know no higher good, and having enjoyed (their reward) on the height of heaven, gained...
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