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.
PYTHAGORASA fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
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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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Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
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If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.
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Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.
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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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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
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Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
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Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
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He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.
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Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
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The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.
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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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