Quotes from Pythagoras

Above all things, respect yourself.

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

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.

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

All is Number

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

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.

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

Number rules the universe.

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.

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.

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

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

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.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Friends share all things.

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that . . . As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms.

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

You should make great things, not promising great things.

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

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

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?

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.