ThursdayNov 21, 2024
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For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
Friends share all things.
Dont eat your heart.
Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.
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.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
But respect yourself most of all.
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.
Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?
Golden Verses So-called because they are 'good as gold.' They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but always go under the name of Pythagoras, and seem quite in accordance with the excellent precepts of that philosopher. They are as follows: Ne'er suffer sleep thine eyes to close Before thy mind hath run O'er every act, and thought, and word, From dawn to set of sun; For wrong take shame, but grateful feel If just thy course hath been; Such effort day by day renewed Will ward thy soul from sin. E. C. B.
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the flesh, with the seditions of the politic and the discords of families.
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be. Custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
Wisdom thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
No man is free who cannot command himself.
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
In all thou dost first let thy prayers ascend, and to the Gods thy labors first commend, from them implore success, and hope a prosperous end.
This is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, And cannot be shaken by a tempest.
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his Body and truth for his soul.
Respect yourself most of all.
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
He who knoweth not what he ought to know, is a brute beast Among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is as a God among men.
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