50+ Pythagoras Quotes (Greek philosopher)

You should make great things, not promising great things.
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Greatness Promise
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
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Blow Enemy Friendship Kiss
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
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Cloud Mind Passion Reason Strength
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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Adversity Calm Cold Darkness Death Depth Hard Height Life Light Prosperity Rough Smooth Soft Solid
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
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Fit Freedom Law Men Necessary Rule
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.
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Broken Heart Eyes Heart Hope Injury Patience Remedy Soul Suffering Wound
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
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Deal Greatness Intelligence
The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.
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Decision Inspirational Requirement Thought
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
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Geometry Music Space String
Don’t try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
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Correction Exam False Improvement Inspirational Mistake Words
Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
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Absorb Learning Listen Meditation Mind Quiet Silence Transformation
Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
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Necessity Neighbor Power
The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.
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Control Man Preparation Wise
Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes.
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Change Die Life Perish Soul
If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.
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Silence Stone Temple Wisdom
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
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Anger Beginning Ending
A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
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Children Help Knees Man
Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.
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Acting Deed Habit Justice Practice Words
Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
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Hands Man Number Reason Talk
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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Choas Creation Darkness Light Man Principle Woman
Number rules the universe.
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Number One Liner Rule Universe
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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Empire Freedom Himself Inspirational Obtain
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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Compassion Friendship Happiness Journey Life
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
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Empire Freedom Himself Inspirational Obtain
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
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Body Inspirational Soul Strong
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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Action Anger Speech
It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.
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Dispute Fools Ignorant Silence

Pythagoras Quotes

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