12 Quotes By Pythagoras


As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Pythagoras on freedom

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 on great

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 on health

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Pythagoras on life

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Pythagoras on men

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 on men

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Pythagoras on music

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 on peace

Strength of mind rests in sobriety for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Pythagoras on strength

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Pythagoras on goodness

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Pythagoras on life

It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families.
Pythagoras on war