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It is not proper either to have a blunt sword or to use freedom of speech ineffectually.
Neither is the sun to be taken from the world, nor freedom of speech from erudition.

— Pythagoras the translation of Thomas Taylor (1818)

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Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

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

Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.

Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.

Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus (1904)

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