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.
PYTHAGORASChoose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
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Don’t try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
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Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.
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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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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
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Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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You should make great things, not promising great things.
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The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.
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Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
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There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
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Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
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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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A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
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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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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
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