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Biography - Pythagoras:

*Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: -580 - Died: -495
Period:
5th century BC
6th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Il n'y a que deux remèdes à la souffrance de l'âme: l'espoir et la patience.

German
Gegen Schmerzen der Seele gibt es nur zwei Heilmittel: Hoffnung und Geduld.




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Quotes for: soul


Quotes

Quotes about soul:


Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.





Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.





At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.





Do not trouble yourself, make yourself simple.





For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.





'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.











Quotes for: hope


Quotes

Quotes about hope:


In all things it is better to hope than to despair.





Hope stole into my heart against my will.





Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.





Don't despair.





Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.





Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.











Quotes for: patience


Quotes

Quotes for: patience


Patience is the companion of wisdom.





Patience and time do more than strength or passion.





Everything comes in time to those who can wait.





It is always the impatience to win that causes someone to lose.





Patience reveals the soul's hidden riches.





Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.











Quotes

Quotes for: pain


Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.





I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.





Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.





Who fears to suffer, already suffers what he fears.





To tolerate is to take upon oneself; a tolerance that comes into being on the backs of others is no longer tolerance. To tolerate the suffering of others, to tolerate an injustice of which we are not a victim or an atrocity that we are spared is not tolerance but selfishness, indifference, or worse.





I have only one passion, that for light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and which has the right to happiness.











Quotes

Pythagoras also said...


Never do anything which you do not understand. But learn all you ought to know, and by that means you will lead a very pleasant life.





Strength of mind rests in sobriety for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.





Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.





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.





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.





As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.












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