Pythagoras Quotes
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Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.
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Virtue is harmony.
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
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Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.
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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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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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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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It is required to find the infinitely big inside what's infinitely small to feel the presence of God.
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So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.
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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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Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
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God built the universe on numbers.
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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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Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.
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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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Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.
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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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There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
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Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.
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Time is the soul of this world.
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Above all things, reverence yourself.
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A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
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Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it by the One who in our hearts engraved The sacred Tetrad , symbol immense and pure, Source of Nature and model of the Gods.
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Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements