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.
PYTHAGORASEducate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.
More Pythagoras Quotes
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Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
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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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Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
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Friends share all things.
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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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Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.
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Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes.
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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.
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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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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
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Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.
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Silence is better than unmeaning words.
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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