Property:HPB Gem text
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Man is a king, dethroned, and cast out from his kingdom; in chains and in a dungeon. +
Man makes himself in the image of his desires, unless he creates himself in the likeness of the Divine, through his will, the child of the light. +
Man walks on, and Karma follows him along with his shadow. +
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. +
Man's actions are divided, as regards their object, into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good. +
Manage all your actions, words, and thoughts accordingly, since you can at any moment quit life. +
Many a man will follow a mis-leader. Few will recognize truth at a glance. +
Many men who have not learnt to argue rationally, still live according to reason. +
Men are gnomes condemned to forced toils in the kingdom of darkness (or ignorance). +
Men who have not observed proper discipline, and have not gained treasure in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish. +
Mite added to mite becomes a great heap; the heap in the barn consists of small grains. +
Mock not the deformed; assume not a proud demeanor with thy inferiors; hurt not the feelings of the poor; be kind to those weaker than thyself, and charitable to all beings. +
Musk is musk because of its own fragrance, and not from being called a perfume by the druggist. +
Narrowness of mind causes stubbornness; we do not easily believe what is beyond that which we see. +
Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome. +
Neither by the eyes, nor by spirit, nor by the sensuous organs, nor by austerity, nor by sacrifices, can we see Brahma. Only the pure, by the light of wisdom and meditation, can see the pure Deity. +
Neither is Theosophy the pursuit of happiness, as men understand the word; for the first step is sacrifice, the second, renunciation. +
Night and day are the steeds of man; they hurry him on, not he them. +
No creature, no thing is free from evil. The sandal tree has its roots sapped by snakes, its blossoms attacked by bees, its branches broken by monkeys, its top eaten by bears. No part of it is secure from pain. +
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. +