Friends are companions on a journey who ought to help each other persevere on the road to a happier life.

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

Pythagoras

Philosophers

Pythagoras

Ancient Greek thinker from Samos (c. 570 BC) who led a religious community in Croton. He linked string ratios to harmony, taught transmigration of souls, and planted the conviction that nature's truths are mathematical.

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Pythagoras's Other Quotes

All is number.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Educate the children and it will not be necessary to punish the men.

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