Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who is not master of himself.
— Pythagoras Ancient

Pythagorean theorem, mathematics

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A two-part maxim on action and self-mastery.

Date / Period

c. 570 – c. 495 BC

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Shocking

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