199 Quotes by Pythagoras

The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.

Don’t eat your heart.

A stone is frozen music.

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

To cognize the Divine Essence – this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!

If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.

Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it by the One who in our hearts engraved The sacred Tetrad, symbol immense and pure, Source of Nature and model of the Gods.

There are in woman’s eyes two sorts of tears, – the one of grief, the other of deceit.

In this theater of man’s life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.