Pythagoras Quotes

Use examples; that such as thou teachest may understand thee the better!

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

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

Attempt nothing above thy strength!

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

Dispose thy Soul to all good and necessary things!

It is better to suffer, than to do, wrong.

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.

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

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

"The oldest, shortest words — "yes" and "no" — are those which require the most thought."

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. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.

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. Such is the fate that harms their minds; like pebbles they are tossed about from one thing to another with cares unceasing. For the dread companion Strife harms them unawares, whom one must not walk behind, but withdraw from and flee.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

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