If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.
PYTHAGORASStrength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
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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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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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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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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
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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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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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Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
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Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
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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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A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
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As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
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Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
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Silence is better than unmeaning words.
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The highest goal of music is to connect one’s soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.
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A thought is an idea in transit.
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