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.
PYTHAGORASPractice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.
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Virtue is harmony.
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Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
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Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.
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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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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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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 man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
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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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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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Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
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If you have a wounded heart, touch it as little as you would an injured eye. There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.
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Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes.
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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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As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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