Pythagoras of Samos was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. Profoundly inspirational Pythagoras quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.
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Famous Pythagoras Quotes
Silence is better than unmeaning words. Pythagoras
As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. Pythagoras
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence. Pythagoras
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. 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
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman. Pythagoras
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself. Pythagoras
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. Pythagoras
Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men. Pythagoras
Reason is immortal, all else mortal. Pythagoras
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres. Pythagoras
A thought is an idea in transit. Pythagoras
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. Pythagoras
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. Pythagoras
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. Pythagoras
The oldest, shortest words yes and no are those which require the most thought. Pythagoras
No man is free who cannot control himself. Pythagoras
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will. Pythagoras
A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child. Pythagoras
Beans have a soul. Pythagoras
Silence is better than unmeaning words. Pythagoras
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion. Pythagoras
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body. Pythagoras
Above all things, reverence yourself. Pythagoras
Silence is better than unmeaning words. Pythagoras
Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few. Pythagoras
Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you. Pythagoras
Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good. Pythagoras
As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love. Pythagoras
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom. Pythagoras
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Pythagoras
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. Pythagoras
Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea. Pythagoras
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras
Number rules the universe. Pythagoras
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras
Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths. Pythagoras
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Pythagoras
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families. Pythagoras
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. Pythagoras
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. Pythagoras
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. Pythagoras
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. Pythagoras
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. Pythagoras
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom. Pythagoras
Virtue is harmony. Pythagoras
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. Pythagoras
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families. Pythagoras
Friends share all things. Pythagoras
Time is the soul of this world. Pythagoras
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy. Pythagoras
Reason is immortal, all else mortal. Pythagoras
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. Pythagoras
Be a good son, just brother, spouse tender and good father. Pythagoras
Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that. As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms. Pythagoras
Thy foolish passions: learn thou to subdue them. Pythagoras
Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything. Pythagoras
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. Pythagoras
You should make great things, not promising great things. Pythagoras
A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow. Pythagoras
Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. Nor ever can the overt act be erased. Pythagoras
Even as Truth, does Error have its lovers. Pythagoras
He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them. Pythagoras
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. 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
There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras. Pythagoras
It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life. Pythagoras
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Pythagoras
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. Pythagoras
Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name philosophers, and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits. Pythagoras
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. Pythagoras
A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow. Pythagoras
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body. Pythagoras
