Pythagoras Quotes
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Step not beyond the beam of the balance.
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Having departed from your house, turn not back; for the furies will be your attendants.
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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
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Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.
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Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
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There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
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Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.
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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.
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I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
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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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Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.
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Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.
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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.
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Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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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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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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Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
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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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Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.
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Above all things, respect yourself.
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When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life.