Pythagoras Quotes
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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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Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
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Time is the soul of this world.
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Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.
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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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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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Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements
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God built the universe on numbers.
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Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.
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I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.
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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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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.
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Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
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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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Above all things, reverence yourself.
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Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.
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Let exercise alternate with rest.
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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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A thought is an idea in transit.
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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Number is the within of all things.
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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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Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.
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Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.