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
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Number rules the universe.
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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.
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Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.
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It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.
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Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.
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Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
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None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.
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Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.
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Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.
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So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.
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It is required to find the infinitely big inside what's infinitely small to feel the presence of God.
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Number is the within of all things.
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Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.
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As soon as you awake, in order Lay the actions to be done the coming day.