"Abstain from animals."
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"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."
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"Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons."
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"It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good."
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"Having departed from your house, turn not back; for the furies will be your attendants."
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"Step not beyond the beam of the balance."
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"It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life."
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"Above all have respect for yourself."
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"Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements"
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"Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate."
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"The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form."
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"Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice."
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"Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself."
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"Neither will the horse be adjudged to be generous, that is sumptuously adorned, but the horse whose nature is illustrious; nor is the man worthy who possesses great wealth, but he whose soul is generous."
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"The earth affords a lavish supply of richess of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass."
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"Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down."
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"One must choose in all things a mean just and good."
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"So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee."
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"A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman."
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"But respect yourself most of all."
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