It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.
PYTHAGORASLet no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.
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Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
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Don’t try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
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Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.
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The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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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.
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The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.
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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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Silence is better than unmeaning words.
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Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
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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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There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
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Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.
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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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Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes.
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