When The Wise Man Opens

We Come From God. As The Tree From The Root And The Stream From The Spring; That's Why We Should Always Be In Contact With Him, As The Trunk From The Root. Because The Stream Dries Up When It Is Separated From The Spring And The Tree Dies When Is Uprooted.

Govern Your Tongue Before All Other Things, Following The Gods.

Golden Verses So-called Because They Are "good As Gold." They Are By Some Attributed To Epicarmos, And By Others To Empedocles, But Always Go Under The Name Of Pythagoras, And Seem Quite In Accordance With The Excellent Precepts Of That Philosopher. They Are As Follows: Ne'er Suffer Sleep Thine Eyes To Close Before Thy Mind Hath Run O'er Every Act, And Thought, And Word, From Dawn To Set Of Sun; For Wrong Take Shame, But Grateful Feel If Just Thy Course Hath Been; Such Effort Day By Day Renewed Will Ward Thy Soul From Sin. E. C. B.

Don't Eat Your Heart.

As The Sea-crab Swimmeth Always Against The Stream, So Doth Wit Always Against Wisdom.