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
heart eat-your-heart
Don't eat your heart.
law all-things knows
Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.
fall sleep eye
Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?
men roots numbers
Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.
men
Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.
men anchors law
Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.
mean men noble
Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained.