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Category: Pythagoras

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

Geometry, Strings, Spheres

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

Passion, Mind, Reason

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

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

Number rules the universe.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

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.

caring-for-others, massacre, thought-provoking

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

eternity, god, wisdom

Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that . . . As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms.

ancestors, eternity, soul

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

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

funny, gods, lol, men, pythagoras

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

ability, link, necessity, wisdom-quotes