Pythagoras Quotes
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No man is free who cannot control himself.
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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
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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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God built the universe on numbers.
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Neither will the horse be adjudged to be generous, that is sumptuously adorned, but the horse whose nature is illustrious; nor is the man worthy who possesses great wealth, but he whose soul is generous.
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Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it by the One who in our hearts engraved The sacred Tetrad , symbol immense and pure, Source of Nature and model of the Gods.
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Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
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Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.
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Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.
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Above all things, reverence 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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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.
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So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.
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Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
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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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Allow not sleep to close your eyes before three times reflecting on Your actions of the day. What deeds Done well, what not, what left undone?
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Let exercise alternate with rest.
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A thought is an idea in transit.
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I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.
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If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to devour our guests, and barbarously renew Cyclopean feasts? While Earth not only can your needs supply, but, lavish of her store, provides for luxury; a guiltless feast administers with ease, and without blood is prodigal to please.
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.
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Number is the within of all things.
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Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.