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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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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I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.
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Time is the soul of this world.
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God built the universe on numbers.
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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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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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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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Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
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A thought is an idea in transit.
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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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So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.
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Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements
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Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.
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Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.
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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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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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Let exercise alternate with rest.
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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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Above all things, reverence yourself.
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Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.
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Number is the within of all things.
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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.