Top 166 Quotes & Sayings by Pythagoras - Page 3

Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.

Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.

Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.

When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life.

Friends share all things.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.

It is required to find the infinitely big inside what's infinitely small to feel the presence of God.

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

Above all have respect for yourself.

Number was the substance of all things.

Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.

Let exercise alternate with rest.

We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.

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.

Numbers rule the universe.

Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.

Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.

Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.

Time is the soul of this world.

Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements

The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.

As soon as you awake, in order Lay the actions to be done the coming day.

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.

The wind is blowing. Adore the wind.

Abstain from animals.

One must choose in all things a mean just and good.

But respect yourself most of all.

The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form.

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.

The earth affords a lavish supply of richess 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.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.

Golden Verses So-called because they are "good as gold." They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but always go under the name of Pythagoras, and seem quite in accordance with the excellent precepts of that philosopher. They are as follows: Ne'er suffer sleep thine eyes to close Before thy mind hath run O'er every act, and thought, and word, From dawn to set of sun; For wrong take shame, but grateful feel If just thy course hath been; Such effort day by day renewed Will ward thy soul from sin. E. C. B.

Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.

So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.

Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power.

Step not beyond the beam of the balance.

A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.

Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.

As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.

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.

Having departed from your house, turn not back; for the furies will be your attendants.

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.