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Goodness
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. -- Pythagoras

Life
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. -- Pythagoras

War
It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families. -- Pythagoras