Blavatsky HP - Gems from the East/Wanted

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Gems from the East

A Birthday Book of Precepts and Axioms

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Thought of the day:

The more a man clothes himself in modesty, the better does he conceal his faults.

The maxims of Hosheng

This page contains a list of quotes with sources to be found. If you are aware of them, please write to info@teopedia.org. See also the found sources.

1. The man who neglects the truth he finds in his soul, in order to follow its dead-letter, is a time-server.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 8:1|(...)]]

2. He who feeds the hungry before he has assuaged his own hunger, prepares for himself eternal food. He who renounces that food for the sake of a weaker brother is – a god.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 5:2|(...)]]

3. In health and wealth man is never in want of friends. True friends, however, are those who remain when they are needed.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 12:2|(...)]]

4. Man who has not hesitated to project his image in space and call it the Creator, sculpted not to endow God with his own vices.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 8:3|(...)]]

5. Of all the animals on earth, man alone has the faculty of causing moral trouble.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 12:3|(...)]]

6. The soothsayer for evil never knows his own fate.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 2:14|(...)]]

7. Truth is brighter than the sun; truth is the sunny day of Reason, and falsehood the mind's dark night.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 3:16|(...)]]

8. The light of all flesh is the sun; the light of the soul – truth everlasting.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 3:18|(...)]]

9. Without Karma, no fisherman could catch a fish; outside of Karma, no fish would die on dry land, or in boiling water.

   (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 2:21|(...)]]

10. Empty thy mind of evil, but fill it with good.

    (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 4:22|(...)]]

11. Sleep is but birth into the land of Memory; birth but a sleep in the oblivion of the Past.

    (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 4:24|(...)]]

12. To forgive without forgetting, is again to reproach the wrong-doer every time the act comes back to us.

    (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 4:25|(...)]]

13. There is more courage in facing the world with undisguised truth, than in descending into a wild beast's den.

    (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 5:26|(...)]]

14. People talk of the Devil. Every man has seen him; he is in every sinful heart.

    (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 4:29|(...)]]

15. Wealth in the hands of one who thinks not of helping mankind with it, is sure to turn one day into dry leaves.

    (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 5:29|(...)]]

16. Craft has the best of men; boldness conquers cities; the first is despised, the last admired.

    (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 11:29|(...)]]

17. Like as the night follows the day, so misfortune is the shadow of joy; Karma bestowing her lots with both hands.

    (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 5:30|(...)]]