Pythagoras Quotes
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Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
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Time is the soul of this world.
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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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Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.
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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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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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Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
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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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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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Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?
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So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.
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Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.
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God built the universe on numbers.
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So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.
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A thought is an idea in transit.
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Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
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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?
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Neither will the horse be adjudged to be generous, that is sumptuously adorned, but the horse whose nature is illustrious; nor is the man worthy who possesses great wealth, but he whose soul is generous.
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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.
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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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Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements
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When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.
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Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.