Pythagoras Quotes
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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!
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Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
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The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
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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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It is required to find the infinitely big inside what's infinitely small to feel the presence of God.
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There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,--the one of grief, the other of deceit.
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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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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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Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.
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Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.
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Having departed from your house, turn not back; for the furies will be your attendants.
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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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Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.
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There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
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Step not beyond the beam of the balance.
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Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.
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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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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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Above all things, respect yourself.
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We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.
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Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.