Pythagoras Quotes - Page 2

Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having it’s own function and character, contributes to the whole.

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.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.

most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.

There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.

God built the universe on numbers.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,--the one of grief, the other of deceit.

Friendship is one soul in two bodies.

Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.

No man is free who cannot control himself.

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.