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is a state in which one should refrain both from speech and action.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. Pythagoras

 shares with us the privilege of having a soul.

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. Pythagoras

is a manifestation of mathematical relations such as the golden section, and thus an objective expression of cosmic truth.

The Pythagoreans believed that beauty is a manifestation of harmonious, mathematical relations such as the golden section. In this proportion a straight line, c, is divided by two unequal parts, a and b, in such a way that the ratio of the smaller, a, to the greater part, b, is the same as that of the greater part, b, to the whole, c. Ugliness is the expression of disorder and a lack of rational proportions. Beauty was thus considered an objective expression of cosmic truth. The ancient Egyptians were probably the first to use the golden section in the design of the Pyramids, but it was Pythagoras of Samos (c. 580-c. 500 B.C.E.) who first presented its mathematical formulation.

Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent. Pythagoras

is to be found in the humming of the harp strings just as there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

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

is inhabited by beautiful plants and animals larger (and superior by fifteen degrees) than ours on earth.

According to Plutarch, Pythagoras, whose sense of mathematical perfection came to dominate cosmology, accounted for the spots on the moon by declaring that the moon was terrestrial. The Pythagoreans affirm 'that the Moon appears to us Terraneous [terrestrial], by reason it is inhabited as our Earth is, and in it there are Animals of a larger size, and Plants of a rarer beauty than our Globe affords, and that the Animals . . . are fifteen degrees superior to ours... that they omit nothing Excrementitious... and the days are fifteen times longer.'

is, along with yes, the oldest, shortest word, but that which requires the most thought.

The oldest, shortest words 'yes' and 'no' are those which require the most thought. (Pythagoras)

Reason is immortal, all else mortal. Pythagoras

is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

Silence is better than unmeaning words. Pythagoras

is so great a perfection thal if God would render himself visible t« men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Truth is so great a perfection thal if God would render himself visible t« men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

is to be sought with a mind g unified from the passions of the body. laving overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the immortal divinity with the mortal man.

Truth is to be sought with a mind g unified from the passions of the body. laving overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the immortal divinity with the mortal man.

is inextricable from war. As long as men massacre animals and act as the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, they will kill each other and not know peace.

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. Pythagoras

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.

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.

is such that, once thoroughly learned, it will never be forgotten.

Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten. Pythagoras

is capable of saying a great deal when few and very little when many.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. (Pythagoras)

is, along with no, the shortest of words but requiring the most thought.

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

is, along with no, the oldest and simplest of words, but requiring the most thought

YES AND NO Yes and no are the oldest and simplest words, but they require the most thought

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