Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at 11:43AM
Drew Wolfe

Pythagoras II

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. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence

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.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

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

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

The oldest, shortest words— "yes" and "no"— are those which require the most thought.

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 body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.


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