Pythagoras Quotes
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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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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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To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!
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Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.
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Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
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Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.
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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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Number is the within of all things.
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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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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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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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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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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.
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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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The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form.
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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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Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
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Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.
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No man is free who cannot control himself.
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I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.