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Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.

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Silence is better than unmeaning words.
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The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form.
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Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
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Numbers rule the universe.
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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.
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Step not beyond the beam of the balance.
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.
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Above all things, respect yourself.
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Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.
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If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread what else is this but to devour our guests, and barbarously renew Cyclopean feasts? While Earth not only can your needs supply, but, lavish of her store, provides for luxury a guiltless feast administers with ease, and without blood is prodigal to please.
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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.
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Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.
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Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.
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Having departed from your house, turn not back for the furies will be your attendants.
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Abstain from animals.
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Above all have respect for yourself.
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One must choose in all things a mean just and good.
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Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
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A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
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