Pythagoras Quotes
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Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements
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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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Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.
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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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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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Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.
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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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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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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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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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Let exercise alternate with rest.
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Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.
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Number is the within of all things.
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Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
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Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
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I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.
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The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form.
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No man is free who cannot control himself.
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Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
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Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
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Beans have a soul.
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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
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A thought is an idea in transit.