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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Pythagoras
Life, Friends, Road
The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.
Pythagoras
Words, Thought, Yes
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Pythagoras
Strength, Mind, Passion
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Pythagoras
Men, Freedom, Longer
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.
Pythagoras
Peace, Health, Men
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Pythagoras
Light, Star, Above
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Pythagoras
Depression, Control, Cannot
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
Pythagoras
Strong, Soul, Rather
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
Pythagoras
Others, Talk, Leave
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Pythagoras
Music, Geometry, Strings
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
Great, Silence, Words
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
Pythagoras
Free, Himself, Empire
A thought is an idea in transit.
Pythagoras
Thought, Idea, Transit
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
Pythagoras
Silence, Words
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
Great, Words, Few
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
Pythagoras
Good, Evil, Woman
Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.
Pythagoras
Good, Done, Act
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
Pythagoras
Life, God, Angels
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Pythagoras
Nothing, Difficult, Easy
Above all things, reverence yourself.
Pythagoras
Yourself, Above, Reverence
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Pythagoras
Life, Good, Art
Virtue is harmony.
Pythagoras
Virtue, Harmony
Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.
Pythagoras
Talk, Few, Subjects
Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
Pythagoras
Else, Reason, Immortal

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Nationality: Greek
Born: 582 BC
Died: 497 BC

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