Silence is better than unmeaning words.
PYTHAGORASA fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
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A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
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Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
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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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The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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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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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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If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
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As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
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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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It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.
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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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Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.
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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
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Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.
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