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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.
If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains himself, and lives according to law,then his glory will increase.
That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.
What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.
For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.
He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.
An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.
Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.
When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.
The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.
Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.