Pythagoras Quotes
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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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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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Time is the soul of this world.
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Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.
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Step not beyond the beam of the balance.
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Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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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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Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
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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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Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
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Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
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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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So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.
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Above all things, reverence yourself.
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Above all have respect for yourself.
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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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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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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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Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.
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Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.
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Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements
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Beans have a soul.
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Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.