Pythagoras Quotes - Page 4

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

A stone is frozen music

Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, 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.

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.

Don't eat your heart.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

Speak not nor act before thou hast reflected.

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.

He buries gold who hides the truth.

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.

The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.

Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

None but God is wise.

Don't disarrange my circles!

Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your parents; but respect yourself most of all.

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.

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.

It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.

He who knoweth not what he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is as a God among men.