The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
PYTHAGORASThere is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
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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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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
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He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.
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Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in 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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Number rules the universe.
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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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If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.
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A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
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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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The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.
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Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
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Virtue is harmony.
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