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.
PYTHAGORASThere is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
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A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
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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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Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
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Don’t try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
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Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
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Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
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Above all things, respect yourself.
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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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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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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
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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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Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.
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