199 Quotes by Pythagoras

Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost. Whatever griefs mortals suffer by divine chance, whatever destiny you have, endure it and do not complain. But it is right to improve it as much as you can, and remember this: Fate does not give very many of these griefs to good people.

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.

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.

Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!

Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.

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

Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.

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

None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.