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.
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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A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
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Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes.
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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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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
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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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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.
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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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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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Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
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Friends share all things.
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Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.
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Don’t try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
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Number rules the universe.
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