Pythagoras Men Quotations

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.

Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul

No man is free who cannot control himself.

Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, 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.

Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

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.

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

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained.

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.

Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.

Neither will the horse be adjudged to be generous, that is sumptuously adorned, but the horse whose nature is illustrious; nor is the man worthy who possesses great wealth, but he whose soul is generous.

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.

Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.

Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your parents; but respect yourself most of all.

You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles.

If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to devour our guests, and barbarously renew Cyclopean feasts? While Earth not only can your needs supply, but, lavish of her store, provides for luxury; a guiltless feast administers with ease, and without blood is prodigal to please.

Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.

We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.

Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.