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.
PYTHAGORASAbility and necessity dwell near each other.
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Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.
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Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
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Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
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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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The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.
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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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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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As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
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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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He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.
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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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Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.
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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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Silence is better than unmeaning words.
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If you have a wounded heart, touch it as little as you would an injured eye. There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.
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