Friedrich Muller Quotes on Man (44 Quotes)

If a man is tossed about by doubts, full of strong passions, and yearning only for what is delightful, his thirst will grow more and more, and he will indeed make his fetters strong.

Life is easy to live for a man who is without shame, a crow hero, a mischief-maker, an insulting, bold, and wretched fellow.

He who is without thirst and without affection, who understands the words and their interpretation, who knows the order of letters (those which are before and which are after), he has received his last body, he is called the great sage, the great man.

They who know what is forbidden as forbidden, and what is not forbidden as not forbidden, such men, embracing the true doctrine, enter the good path.

If one man conquer in battle a thousand times thousand men, and if another conquer himself, he is the greatest of conquerors.

If a man would hasten towards the good, he should keep his thought away from evil.

Death comes and carries off that man, praised for his children and flocks, his mind distracted, as a flood carries off a sleeping village.

Men, driven on by thirst, run about like a snared hare held in fetters and bonds, they undergo pain for a long time, again and again.

The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.

Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good.

One ought to follow the wise, the intelligent, the learned, the much enduring, the dutiful, the elect one ought to follow a good and wise man, as the moon follows the path of the stars.

Let a man walk alone, let him commit no sin, with few wishes, like an elephant in the forest.

Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage No sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name and form, and who calls nothing his own.

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

Men, driven by fear, go to many a refuge, to mountains and forests, to groves and sacred trees.

So long as the love of man towards women, even the smallest, is not destroyed, so long is his mind in bondage, as the calf that drinks milk is to its mother.

Death subdues a man who is gathering flowers, and whose mind is distracted, before he is satiated in his pleasures.

If, whether for his own sake, or for the sake of others, a man wishes neither for a son, nor for wealth, nor for lordship.

A creature's pleasures are extravagant and luxurious sunk in lust and looking for pleasure, men undergo (again and again) birth and decay.

Leaving all pleasures behind, and calling nothing his own, the wise man should purge himself from all the troubles of the mind.

But life is hard to live for a modest man, who always looks for what is pure, who is disinterested, quiet, spotless, and intelligent.

An envious, greedy, dishonest man does not become respectable by means of much talking only, or by the beauty of his complexion.

They who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed of, and are not ashamed of what they ought to be ashamed of, such men, embracing false doctrines enter the evil path.

Fools follow after vanity, men of evil wisdom.

But he who lives a hundred years, vicious and unrestrained, a life of one day is better if a man is virtuous and reflecting.

They lead a tamed elephant to battle, the king mounts a tamed elephant the tamed is the best among men, he who silently endures abuse.

A man is not just if he carries a matter by violence no, he who distinguishes both right and wrong, who is learned and leads others, not by violence, but by law and equity, and who is guarded by the law and intelligent, he is called just.

O man, know this, that the unrestrained are in a bad state take care that greediness and vice do not bring thee to grief for a long time

If a man find a prudent companion who walks with him, is wise, and lives soberly, he may walk with him, overcoming all dangers, happy, but considerate.

Even though a speech be a thousand (of words), but made up of senseless words, one word of sense is better, which if a man hears, he becomes quiet.

Let a man but keep these three roads of action clear, and he will achieve the way which is taught by the wise.

Watching his speech, well restrained in mind, let a man never commit any wrong with his body

If anything is to be done, let a man do it, let him attack it vigorously.

If a man make himself as he teaches others to be, then, being himself well subdued, he may subdue (others) one's own self is indeed difficult to subdue.

Is there in this world any man so restrained by humility that he does not mind reproof, as a well-trained horse the whip

If a man becomes fat and a great eater, if he is sleepy and rolls himself about, that fool, like a hog fed on wash, is born again and again.

By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control, the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.

If a man commits a sin, let him not do it again let him not delight in sin pain is the outcome of evil.

If a man for a hundred years sacrifice month after month with a thousand, and if he but for one moment pay homage to a man whose soul is grounded (in true knowledge), better is that homage than sacrifice for a hundred years.

The sight of the elect (Arya) is good, to live with them is always happiness if a man does not see fools, he will be truly happy.

His thought is quiet, quiet are his word and deed, when he has obtained freedom by true knowledge, when he has thus become a quiet man.

A man is not an elder because his head is grey his age may be ripe, but he is called 'Old-in-vain.'

If a man has transgressed one law, and speaks lies, and scoffs at another world, there is no evil he will not do.

The world gives according to their faith or according to their pleasure if a man frets about the food and the drink given to others, he will find no rest either by day or by night.