Great Throughts Treasury
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Pythagoras, aka Pythagoras of Samos or Pythagoras the Samian NULL
Greek Ionian Philosopher, Mathematician and founder of movement called Pythagoreanism
"Wish not the thing, which thou mayest not obtain!"
"Work at these things, practice them, these are the things you ought to desire; they are what will put you on the path of divine virtue "
"Without Justice, no realm may prosper."
"You should give a possibility to mature to your thoughts under your tongue before you begin to speak."
"Write in the sand the flaws of your friend."
"You should learn something about other people. Knowledge of people is more comfortable and essential than knowledge of gods."
"You should take a dog after a long search for a friend, because a faithful dog is the image of a fast friend."
"You should make great things, not promising great things."
"You should keep silence or to say something that is better than a silence."
"You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles. Such is the fate that harms their minds; like pebbles they are tossed about from one thing to another with cares unceasing. For the dread companion Strife harms them unawares, whom one must not walk behind, but withdraw from and flee."