Pythagoras Quotes
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Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.
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As soon as you awake, in order Lay the actions to be done the coming day.
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We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that's why we should always be in contact with Him, as the trunk from the root. Because the stream dries up when it is separated from the spring and the tree dies when is uprooted.
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As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.
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Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.
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Above all things, respect yourself.
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Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.
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A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
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None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.
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It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.
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There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.
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Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
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Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.
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Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.
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The stars in the heavens sing a music, if only we had ears to hear.
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Without Justice, no realm may prosper.
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A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.
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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
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To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!
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Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.
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I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.
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Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.
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Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.
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It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.