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  • #1
    Adam Smith
    “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
    Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

  • #2
    C.S. Lewis
    “Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”
    C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

  • #3
    Pythagoras
    “No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.”
    Pythagoras

  • #4
    Pythagoras
    “Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.”
    Pythagoras

  • #5
    Pythagoras
    “There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres. ”
    Pythagoras

  • #6
    Pythagoras
    “Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.”
    Pythagoras

  • #7
    Pythagoras
    “In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.”
    Pythagoras

  • #8
    Pythagoras
    “The oldest, shortest wordsâ€� "yes" and "no"â€� are those which require the most thought.”
    Pythagoras

  • #9
    Pythagoras
    “A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.”
    Pythagoras

  • #10
    Pythagoras
    “Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.”
    Pythagoras

  • #11
    Pythagoras
    “Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.”
    Pythagoras

  • #12
    Pythagoras
    “All is Number”
    Pythagoras

  • #13
    Pythagoras
    “Number rules the universe.”
    Pythagoras

  • #14
    Pythagoras
    “As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.”
    Pythagoras

  • #15
    Pythagoras
    “Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.”
    Pythagoras

  • #16
    Pythagoras
    “We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.”
    Pythagoras

  • #17
    Pythagoras
    “Friends share all things.”
    Pythagoras

  • #18
    Pythagoras
    “Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.”
    Pythagoras

  • #19
    Pythagoras
    “A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.”
    Pythagoras

  • #20
    Pythagoras
    “Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.”
    Pythagoras

  • #21
    Pythagoras
    “Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.”
    Pythagoras

  • #22
    Pythagoras
    “Allow not sleep to close your eyes
    Before three times reflecting on
    Your actions of the day. What deeds
    Done well, what not, what left undone?”
    Pythagoras

  • #23
    Pythagoras
    “You should make great things, not promising great things.”
    Pythagoras

  • #24
    Pythagoras
    “It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.”
    Pythagoras

  • #25
    Pythagoras
    “Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. Nor ever can the overt act be erased.”
    Pythagoras

  • #26
    Pythagoras
    “There is geometry in the humming of the string.”
    Pythagoras

  • #27
    Pythagoras
    “Should one in boldness say, Lo, I am God!
    Besides the One--Eternal--Infinite,
    Then let him from the throne he has usurped
    Put forth his power and form another globe,
    Such as we dwell in, saying, This is mine.
    Nor only so, but in this new domain
    For ever let him dwell. if this he can,
    Then verily he is a god proclaimed.”
    Pythagoras

  • #28
    Pythagoras
    “Power is the near neighbour of necessity.”
    Pythagoras
    tags: power

  • #29
    Pythagoras
    “Ability and necessity dwell near each other.”
    Pythagoras

  • #30
    Pythagoras
    “He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.”
    Pythagoras



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