Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
PYTHAGORASStrength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
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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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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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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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The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.
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Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.
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Friends share all things.
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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
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As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.
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Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
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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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Silence is better than unmeaning words.
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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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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