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Pythagors (582 BC ~ 497 BC ) Greek Mathematician, Philosopher

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.


In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.


Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.


Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.


Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.


Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.


A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.


You should make great things, not promising great things.


It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.


He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.


The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.


The oldest, shortest words - "yes' and "no" - are those which require the most thought.


No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.


Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.


There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.


Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.


Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.


We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.


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Do not eat your heart.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Virtue is harmony.

No man is free who cannot control himself.

Above all things, respect yourself.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

Number rules the universe.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

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Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
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.
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. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
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.
Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. Nor ever can the overt act be erased.
Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that . . . As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms.

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