Pythagoras Quotes
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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.
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Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
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Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?
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Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
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So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.
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The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.
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Above all things, respect yourself.
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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.
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It is required to find the infinitely big inside what's infinitely small to feel the presence of God.
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Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.
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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.
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There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
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Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
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A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
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Above all things, reverence yourself.
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Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements
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You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles.
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Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.
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If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to devour our guests, and barbarously renew Cyclopean feasts? While Earth not only can your needs supply, but, lavish of her store, provides for luxury; a guiltless feast administers with ease, and without blood is prodigal to please.
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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.
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Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.
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Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.
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Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.
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Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.