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Fabre d'Olivet, Antoine, Pythagoras, and Redfield, Nayán Louise
Tourne sur ses bourreaux un œil religieux,
Et bénit jusqu’au bras qui cause son martyre:
Tel l’arbre de Sandal que frappe un furieux,
Couvre de ses parfums le fer qui le dechire.”
“We accuse the gods of our evils, while we ourselves
By our own errors, are responsible for them.”
Source notes
[371]Edda Island; Hâvamâl.
[372]Diogen. Laërt., In Prœm., p. 5.
[373]Pœmander et Asclepius.
[374] This is the vast collection of Brahmanic morals. One finds there many of the lines repeated word for word in the Sepher of Moses.
[375] In them, antiquity goes back three thousand years before our era. There is mention of an eclipse of the sun, verified for the year 2155 B.C.
[376]Senec., De Sen., l. vi., c. 2.
[377]Hiérocl., Aur. carmin., v. 18.
[378]Jamblic., De Vitâ Pythag.; Porphyr., ibid., et de Abstin.; Vitâ Pythag. apud; Phot., Cod., 259; Diog. Laërt., In Pythag., l. viii.; Hierocl., Comment. in Aur. Carm.; ibid., De Provident.; Philost., In Vitâ Apollon; Plutar., De Placit. philos.; ibid., De Procreat. anim.; Apul.., In Florid.; Macrob., In Saturn., et "Somn. Scip.; Fabric., Bibl. græc. in Pythag.; Clem. Alex., Strom., passim., etc.
[379]Hiérocl., Aur. Carm., v. 14; Phot., Cod., 242 et 214.
[380]Diog. Laërt., In Pythag.; ibid., In Emped.
[381]Hiérocl., Pont. apudDiog. Laërt., l. viii., § 4.
[382] Maximus Tyrius has made a dissertation upon the origin of Evil, in which he asserts that the prophetic oracles, having been consulted on this subject, responded by these two lines from Homer:
[383]Hiérocl., Aur. Carm., v. 18.
[384]Plutar., De Repugn. Stoïc.
[385]In Gorgi. et Phileb.
[386]Hiérocl., Aur. Carmin., v., 18.
[387]Hiérocl., Aur. Carmin., v. 18, 49 et 62.
[388]In Phédon; In Hipp., ii.; In Theæt.; De Rep., l. iv., etc.
[389] Hyde, De Relig. Vet. Pers., p. 298.
[390]Evan. S. Math., ch. xvii., v. 19.
[391]Vie de Kong-Tzée (Confucius), p. 324.
[392] Meng-Tzée, cité par Duhalde, t. ii., p. 334.
[393] Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita, lect. ii.
[394]XL Questions sur l’Ame (Viertzig Fragen von der Sellen Orstand, Essentz, Wesen, Natur und Eigenschafft, etc. Amsterdam, 1682). Quest. 1.
[395]Ibid.
[396]IX Textes, text. 1 et 2.
[397]XL Questions, quest. 6.
[398] Plato, In Theag.
[399]Clem. Alex., Strom., l. iv., p. 506; Beausobre, Hist. du Manich., t. ii., p. 28.
[400] This is the signification of the Greek word φιλόσοφος.
[401] Dans le Tchong-Yong, ou le Principe central, immuable, appelé Le Livre de la grande Science.
[402]Evan. S. Math., ch. vii., v. 6.
[403]Bhagavad-Gita, lect. 8 et 13.
[404]Evang. S. Luc., ch. xiv., v. 26.