Pythagoras Quotes
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Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
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Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.
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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
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I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.
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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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Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?
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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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There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
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There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,--the one of grief, the other of deceit.
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Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.
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Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.
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We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.
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Having departed from your house, turn not back; for the furies will be your attendants.
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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.
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Above all things, respect yourself.
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Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.
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Step not beyond the beam of the balance.
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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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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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Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.