The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.
PYTHAGORASThe most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
More Pythagoras Quotes
-
-
If you have a wounded heart, touch it as little as you would an injured eye. There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.
PYTHAGORAS -
Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.
PYTHAGORAS -
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
PYTHAGORAS -
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.
PYTHAGORAS -
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.
PYTHAGORAS -
Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?
PYTHAGORAS -
Above all things, respect yourself.
PYTHAGORAS -
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
PYTHAGORAS -
Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.
PYTHAGORAS -
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
PYTHAGORAS -
Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
PYTHAGORAS -
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
PYTHAGORAS -
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
PYTHAGORAS -
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
PYTHAGORAS -
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
PYTHAGORAS -
Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
PYTHAGORAS -
The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.
PYTHAGORAS -
Virtue is harmony.
PYTHAGORAS -
A thought is an idea in transit.
PYTHAGORAS -
Don’t try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
PYTHAGORAS -
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
PYTHAGORAS -
You should make great things, not promising great things.
PYTHAGORAS -
A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
PYTHAGORAS -
If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.
PYTHAGORAS -
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
PYTHAGORAS -
Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.
PYTHAGORAS