Pythagoras Quotes

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.

The earth affords a lavish supply of richess of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

If you have a wounded heart, touch it as little as you would an injured eye. There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.

A stone is frozen music

Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.

Time is the soul of this world.

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Above all have respect for yourself.

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Allow not sleep to close your eyes before three times reflecting on Your actions of the day. What deeds Done well, what not, what left undone?

Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.

A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.

No man is free who cannot control himself.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power.

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.

God built the universe on numbers.

He who knoweth not what he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is as a God among men.