As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.
PYTHAGORASThe most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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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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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.
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Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
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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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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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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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A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
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Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
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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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There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
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As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
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The highest goal of music is to connect one’s soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.
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