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11/5/12

PYTHAGORAS Quotes


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"A fool is known by his speech, and a wise man by his silence." ~Pythagoras 

"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace." ~Pythagoras

"Be silent,  or let thy words be worth more than silence." ~Pythagoras 

"Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body." ~Pythagoras

"Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths." ~Pythagoras

"Everything comes round again - so nothing is completely new." ~Pythagoras

"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other." ~Pythagoras

"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." ~Pythagoras

"In anger we should refrain both from speech and action." ~Pythagoras 

"It is better to stay silent, than to dispute with the ignorant." ~Pythagoras

"It’s wiser to stay silent or speak words more valuable than silence. It’s better to risk a pearl than to utter idle or pointless words. Say much with few words."  ~Pythagoras

"Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, absorb, transcribe and transform."  ~Pythagoras 

"Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb." ~Pythagoras 

"Most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth and power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge." ~Pythagoras

"Numbers rule the universe." ~Pythagoras

"Reason is immortal, all else is mortal." ~Pythagoras

"Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea." ~Pythagoras

"The earth affords a lavish supply of richness of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass." ~Pythagoras

"The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil." ~Pythagoras

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

"Wealth is a weak anchor; fame is still weaker. What then are the anchors which are strong? Wisdom, great-hearted ness, courage - these are the anchors which no storm can shake." ~Pythagoras

BIO

Pythagoras of Samos was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, the West in general.

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