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 eat your heart.
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
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
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
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
Pythagoras
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
Pythagoras
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Pythagoras
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Pythagoras
The oldest, shortest words - "yes' and "no" - are those which require the most thought.
Pythagoras
Virtue is harmony.
Pythagoras
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Type:
Mathematician
Date of Birth:
0000-00-00
Year of Death:
Nationality:
Greek |