Pythagoras Quotes & Sayings

#1. As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.

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#2. Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.

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#3. 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.

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#4. Above all things, respect yourself.

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

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#6. A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow.

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#7. Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

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#8. Astonishing! Everything is intelligent!

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#9. Lust weakens both body and mind.

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#10. 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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#11. Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.

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#12. Number rules the universe.

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

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#14. There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

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

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#16. Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

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

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

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#19. Silence is better than unmeaning words.

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#20. To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!

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#21. Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

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#22. Don't disarrange my circles!

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

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

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

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#26. Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements

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#27. Don't eat your heart.

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#28. Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.

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#29. The stars in the heavens sing a music, if only we had ears to hear

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#30. Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

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#31. A fool is known by his
speech; and a wise man by
silence.

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#32. Repect yourself ... The rest will follow.

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#33. No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

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#34. The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

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

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

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#37. None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.

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

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#39. God built the universe on numbers.

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#40. Love that shines from within cannot be darkened by obstacles of the world of consequences!

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#41. Number is the within of all things.

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#42. Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

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#43. The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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

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#45. He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods.

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

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#47. Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. Nor ever can the overt act be erased.

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#48. Speak not nor act before thou hast reflected.

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#49. Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.

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#50. Step not beyond the beam of the balance.

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

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#52. The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence.

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#53. Friends share all things.

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#54. 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.

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#55. 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.

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#56. I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.

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#57. 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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#58. A stone is frozen music

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#59. The wind is blowing. Adore the wind.

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#60. He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.

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#61. Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

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

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#63. 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.

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#64. Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

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#65. Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.

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#66. Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant.

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#67. The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment

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#68. Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained.

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

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#70. Number was the substance of all things.

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#71. Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.

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#72. Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

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#73. He buries gold who hides the truth.

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

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

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#76. It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.

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#77. Friendship is one soul in two bodies.

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#78. Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.

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#79. Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

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

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#81. Let exercise alternate with rest.

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

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#83. Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

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#84. Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.

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

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#86. 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.

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#87. 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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#88. Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

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#89. Above all have respect for yourself.

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

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#91. 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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#92. Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.

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#93. Without Justice, no realm may prosper.

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#94. 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.

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