English translations of the world’s Sacred Texts.
Mindfulness: Canto II The Dhamapada
Appamada Vagga: Mindfulness Mindfulness is the way to immortality; heelessness is the way to death. The mindful do not die; the heedless are already dead. Knowing clearly the distinc... Read more
On the Tetractys, Theon of Smyrna
On the Tetractys From the Mathematica, by Theon of Smyrna tr. Thomas Taylor (Life of Pythagoras, 1818, “Additional Notes”) The tetrad was called by the Pythagoreans every number,... Read more
The Pythagoric Symbols, with the Explanations of Iamblichus Translated by William Bridgman (1804) All these Symbols are exhortatory in common to the whole of virtue; but particularly each to... Read more
The Golden Sentences of Democrates
The Golden Sentences of Democrates Translated by William Bridgman (1804) 1. If any one will give his mind to these sentences, he will obtain many things worthy of a man, and be free from man... Read more
The Pythagoric Sentences of Demophilus Translated by Thomas Taylor (Originally published in Sallust on the Gods and the World, 1793) 1. Request not of the divinity such things as when obtain... Read more
Pythagoric Sentences, from the Protreptics of Iamblichus1 Translated by Thomas Taylor ———— As we live through soul, it must be said that by the virtue of this we live well; just as because w... Read more
Pythagoric Ethical Sentences of Stobæus Which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, etc. of Gale. Translated by Thomas Taylor ———— Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done. Ch... Read more
The Similitudes of Demophilus
The Similitudes of Demophilus OR The Remedy of Life, From the PYTHAGOREANS. Translated by William Bridgman (1804) 1. Flattery is like painted armour, because it affords delight, but is of no... Read more
FROM THEAGES, IN HIS TREATISE ON THE VIRTUES. ———— The order of the soul subsists in such a way, that one part of it is the reasoning power, another is anger, and another is desire. And the... Read more
The Good and Happy Man, Archytas
FROM ARCHYTAS, IN HIS TREATISE CONCERNING THE GOOD AND HAPPY MAN. ———— In the first place, it is requisite to know this, that the good man is not immediately happy from necessity; but that t... Read more
