The Golden Verses of Pythagoras · 19 of 122 · tr. Florence M. Firth
Section 9 (part 3)
There is not any gate of wealth so secure, which the opportunity of fortune may not open.
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Expel by reasoning the unrestrained grief of a torpid soul.
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It is the province of the wise man to bear poverty with equanimity.
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Spare your life, lest you consume it with sorrow and care.
53.
Nor will I be silent as to this particular, that it appeared both to Plato and Pythagoras, that old age was not to be considered with reference to an egress from the present life, but to the beginning of a blessed life.
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The ancient theologists and priests testify that the soul is conjoined to the body through a certain punishment, and, that it is buried in this body as in a sepulchre.
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Whatever we see when awake is death; and when asleep, a dream.
Footnotes 47:1 Hence the dogma of the Stoics derived its origin, that the wise man is independent of fortune.
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Rejection Of Hypocrisyethics
Critique of outward religious observance that lacks inner transformation; form without substance.
[auto] The text condemns concealing errors with words and warns against flatterers, prioritizing truthful correction over outward appearance.
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The spiritual danger of attachment to material possessions; wealth as a spiritual obstacle.
[auto] Verse 30 explicitly critiques avarice by comparing the life of the greedy to a joyless funeral banquet.
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Daily review of thought and action as spiritual practice.
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