Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
PYTHAGORASRest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
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Virtue is harmony.
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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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Above all things, respect yourself.
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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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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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Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
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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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Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
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As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
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Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
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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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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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Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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