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Passages similar to: Dhammapada — Chapter VI: The Wise Man (Pandita)
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Dhammapada
Chapter VI: The Wise Man (Pandita) (81)
As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, wise people falter not amidst blame and praise.
Bhagavad Gita
Sankhya Yoga (2.57)
He who has no attachment to anything anywhere, who does not rejoice and hate when good and bad things happen, his wisdom is fixed and steady.
The Masnavi
The Man who prayed earnestly to be fed without work (12-21)
Free of opinion, of duplicity, and of vain talk. Though the whole world say to him, "Thou art firm in the road of God's faith," He is not made more...
Bhagavad Gita
Dhyāna Yoga (6.19)
Just as a lamp in a windless place does not flicker, so the disciplined mind of a yogi remains steady in meditation on the self.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter X: The Gnostic Avails Himself of the Help of All Human Knowledge. (5)
Whence he shall never be shaken from his own heritage. "He shall not be afraid of evil tidings; " consequently neither of unfounded calumny, nor of...
Bhagavad Gita
Sankhya Yoga (2.56)
He whose mind is not troubled in sorrow, who does not hanker after pleasures and is free from attachment fear and hatred, is called the sage of...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 1: The Buddha Land (17)
While like Mount Sumeru you are unmoved by both praise and censure. Your compassion is extended to both good and evil men, like space thy mind...
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Sanyāsa Yoga (5.20)
The man of steady intellect, undeluded, knower of Brahman, established in Brahman, should not be elated having obtained the pleasant and should not...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter X: The Gnostic Avails Himself of the Help of All Human Knowledge. (4)
Now David cried, "The righteous shall not be shaken for ever;" neither, consequently, by deceptive speech nor by erring pleasure.
The Path of Light
Chapter 8: The Perfect Contemplation (4)
The mortal who thinks of his gains or his honours or the favour of many men will be afraid of death when it falls upon him. Whatsoever it be in which...
The Path of Light
Chapter 6: The Perfect Long-Suffering (16)
Praise, glory, and honours make not for righteousness or long life, or for strength, or health, or pleasure of the body. But such will be the end...
Bhagavad Gita
Sankhya Yoga (2.15)
The firm man who is not affected by pain and pleasure, who remains equal-minded, surely is fit for immortality, O Arjuna, Chief of mortals!
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Yoga (3.26)
The wise man should not disturb and confuse the minds of the ignorant attached to action. By performing all actions with yogic equanimity, they...
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC SENTENCES, FROM THE PROTREPTICS OF IAMBLICHUS. [96] (2)
It must not be thought that gold can be injured by rust, or virtue by baseness. We should betake ourselves to virtue as to an inviolable temple, in...
The Masnavi
The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass (22-31)
From the agitation of doubt, and is firm in the faith. Till the foam has landed on the shore and dry land, Which is its home, it is ever tossed to...
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC ETHICAL SENTENCES FROM STOBÆUS, Which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, &c. of Gale. (4)
All the parts of human life, in the same manner as those of a statue, ought to be beautiful. A statue indeed standing on its basis, but a worthy man...
Katha Upanishad
Fourth Vallī (2)
Wise men only, knowing the nature of what is immortal, do not look for anything stable here among things unstable.'...
Bhagavad Gita
Sankhya Yoga (2.70)
As the ocean is filled with water flowing into it from all sides and remains immovable, so the man into whom all desires flow, but is not a bit...
Katha Upanishad
Second Vallī (22)
'The wise who knows the Self as bodiless within the bodies, as unchanging among changing things, as great and omnipresent, does never grieve.'
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book II (48)
The fruit of right poise is the strength to resist the shocks of infatuation or sorrow.
Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching (45)
Who thinks his great achievements poor Shall find his vigour long endure. Of greatest fulness, deemed a void, Exhaustion ne'er shall stem the tide....
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