As translated by Fabre d'Olivet
The Golden Verses
Context: Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them;
To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee.
I swear it by the One who in our hearts engraved
The sacred Tetrad, symbol immense and pure,
Source of Nature and model of the Gods.
“I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“6258. Follow Love, and it will flee;
Flee Love, and it will follow thee.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Since providence and necessity has cast them upon it, he should pray God to bless their counsels.”
On the trial of Charles I (December 1648)
On her opinion given to the Priest who was on his way to China as a missionary, quoted in "Diary notes and Meeting with Sri Aurobindo" and also in The Mother: The Story of Her Life by Georges Van Vrekhem (2004) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=8hgG8aweqncC&pg=RA1-PA40, p. 40
The Art of Persuasion
Context: Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we can love them... the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 86
Source: Reason: The Only Oracle Of Man (1784), Ch. IV Section II - Containing a Disquisition of the Law of Nature, as it respects the Moral System, interspersed with Observations on Subsequent Religions.
As quoted in Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book (1923) by Elbert Hubbard, p. 62
De visione Dei (On The Vision of God) (1453)
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1886/jan/21/first-eight in the House of Commons (21 January 1886).
1880s
