Pythagoras Quotes
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No man is free who cannot control himself.
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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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Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
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Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.
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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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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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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
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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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There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
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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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It is required to find the infinitely big inside what's infinitely small to feel the presence of God.
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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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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
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Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.
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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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Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.
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Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
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Above all things, respect yourself.
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Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
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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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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.
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Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?
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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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Time is the soul of this world.