A thought is an idea in transit.
PYTHAGORASThere is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
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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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Above all things, respect yourself.
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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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Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
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Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
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Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
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The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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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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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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The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.
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Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.
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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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