Pythagoras Quotes
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Having departed from your house, turn not back; for the furies will be your attendants.
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Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.
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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
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Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.
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Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
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There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
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Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
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I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.
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Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.
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Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.
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Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
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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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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.
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A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow.
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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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Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
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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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When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life.
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Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power.
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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Above all things, respect yourself.
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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.