Pythagoras Quotes
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Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.
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Above all things, respect yourself.
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If you have a wounded heart, touch it as little as you would an injured eye. There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.
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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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So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.
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The earth affords a lavish supply of richess 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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There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
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It is required to find the infinitely big inside what's infinitely small to feel the presence of God.
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Above all things, reverence yourself.
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Virtue is harmony.
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Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
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Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.
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The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.
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God built the universe on numbers.
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As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
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Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.
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Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.
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Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.
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You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles.
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Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.
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A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
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Time is the soul of this world.
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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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A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow.