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Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know hea...

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The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Number rules the universe.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard...

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Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perish...

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Choose always the way that seems the best however rough it may be custom will soon render it easy ...

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He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know heal...

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Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

In this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder ...

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Pythagoras

Philosopher

Born: 0571-01-01 BC

Died: 0495-01-01 BC

Pythagoras of Samos (Πυθαγόρας; c. 570 BC – c. 496 BC) was an Ionian Greek philosopher often revered as a great mathematician, mystic, scientist, and putative founder of the traditions referred to as Pythagoreanism.More