Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
– Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
– Pythagoras
Do not eat your heart.
– Pythagoras
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
– Pythagoras
If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
– Pythagoras
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
– Pythagoras
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
– Pythagoras
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
– Pythagoras
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
– Pythagoras
The oldest, shortest words - yes' and no - are those which require the most thought.
– Pythagoras
Virtue is harmony.
– Pythagoras
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
– Pythagoras
Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.
– Pythagoras
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
– Pythagoras
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
– Pythagoras
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
– Pythagoras
Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
– Pythagoras
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
– Pythagoras
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.
– Pythagoras
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
– Pythagoras
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.
