A Quote by Sophocles
To err from the right path is common to mankind.
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Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way.
To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that ancient path, that ancient road? It is just this Noble Eightfold Path; that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.
One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.
The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.
Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.
The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.
It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.
This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.
If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.
Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.
If you are going to err, err on the side of mercy.
I write the songs and hand it over to the world and see what happens. But the things that I've written for people that have been hits, I don't know that I would have directed them in the right path, but they definitely wound up on the right path.
The Tathagatha... is the originator of the path unarisen before, the producer of the path unproduced before, the declarer of the path undeclared before. He is the knower of the path, the discoverer of the path, the one skilled in the path. And his disciplines now dwell following that path and become possessed of it afterwards.
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