Pythagoras Quotes
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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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Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.
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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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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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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
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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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Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
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Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
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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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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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Above all have respect for yourself.
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So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.
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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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Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
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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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Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.
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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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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
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Above all things, reverence yourself.
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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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Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements
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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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Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.