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
children men educate
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
wise hate eye
Hate and fear breed a poison in the blood, which if continued, affects eyes, ears, nose and the organs of digestion. Therefore, it is not wise to hear and remember the unkind things others might say about you.
silence mind quiet
Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
children men knees
A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
food sea parent
Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.
depression men worry
No man is free who cannot control himself.
lust mind body
Lust weakens both body and mind.
communication speak
Speak not nor act before thou hast reflected.
numbers built universe
God built the universe on numbers.
shining world obstacles
Love that shines from within cannot be darkened by obstacles of the world of consequences!
inspirational strength stay-strong
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
path way walks
Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
soul different body
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.
vegetarianism wickedness body
Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!