Pythagoras

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

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. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.

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.

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

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.

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

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

Strength of mind rests in sobriety for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

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

Choose always the way that seems the best however rough it may be custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.

He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.

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.

Number rules the universe.