Pythagoras
Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and has been credited as the founder of the movement called Pythagoreanism. Most of the information about Pythagoras was written down centuries after he lived, so very little reliable information is known about him. He was born on the island of Samos, and traveled, visiting Egypt and Greece, and maybe India, and in 520 BC returned to Samos. Around 530 BC, he moved to Croton, in Magna Graecia, and there established...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionMathematician
wise men silence
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
mind three gone
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?
anger speech action
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
art good human life momentous soul winning
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
leave others rest satisfied talk
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will
men numbers hands
Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.
heart sacred virtue
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.
men may needs
He who knoweth not what he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is as a God among men.
mean all-things
One must choose in all things a mean just and good.
men order made
Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.
men burden
Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.
law numbers unity
Evolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God
mean excess cases
Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.
men use manners
Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.