Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    The sages

    quoted 7 times by 4 works · as a person

    Most often reported — someone's speech given in report. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.

    1 quoted · 3 reported · 3 carried

    4 authority 2 neutral 1 endorsed

    in the voice of Miskawayh 1 , The Sages 1 , The sages 1 , al-Māwardī 1 , the sages 1

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    4 works
    1. in the voice of The sages

    2. Adab al-wazīr al-Māwardī 4 authority 4 citations · 9 passages

      The formula some of the sages have said introduces direct quotation repeatedly.

      Some of the sages have said:
      ch. 3
    3. in the voice of Miskawayh

    4. al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq Miskawayh 1 endorsed 1 citation

      The doctrine is explicitly ascribed to the sages' inquiry and stated definitionally.

      As for his near perfection, it is the issuing of acts from him out of deliberation and discrimination, and that he should order them according to what the intellect (ʻaql) requires;
      the book of happiness
    5. in the voice of the sages

    6. Manusmṛti Manu 1 neutral 1 citation

      A direct quoted question is attributed to the sages addressing Bhṛgu.

      "O Lord, for Brāhmaṇas who thus follow their own Dharma as prescribed, how does death have power over these knowers of the Veda and the sacred treatises?
      chapter 5
    7. in the voice of The Sages

    8. Yama Smṛti Yama 1 neutral 1 citation

      The sages are marked as speakers and their question is reported directly, framing the dialogue.

      Those who have committed great sins, and minor sinners as well, / by which vows they are purified—tell that to us, O great sage.
      chapter 1
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    the cited text is in the library and opens in the reader
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    the passage in this text that does the citing
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    beside a chapter, the passages anchored there. A single citation can quote more than one passage, which is why a row carries two figures: the citations the harvest recorded, and the passages its chapters add up to.