If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.
PYTHAGORASThe most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.
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Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.
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Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
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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.
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Virtue is harmony.
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It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.
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Above all things, reverence yourself.
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Number rules the universe.
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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
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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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As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
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It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.
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Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.
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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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A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
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