Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
PYTHAGORASIf you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.
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Don’t try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
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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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Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
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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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The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.
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He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.
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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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Friends share all things.
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Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
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Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.
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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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A thought is an idea in transit.
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