Pythagoras

"Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself."

"Abstain from animals."

"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."

"Above and before all things, worship GOD!"

"I was Euphorbus at the siege of Troy."

"By the air which I breathe, and by the water which I drink, I will not endure to be blamed on account of this discourse."

"Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons."

"Τὴν δ' ἀνθρώπου ψυχὴν διῃρῆσθαι τριχῆ, εἴς τε νοῦν καὶ φρένας καὶ θυμόν. νοῦν μὲν οὖν καὶ θυμὸν εἶναι καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἄλλοις ζῴοις, φρένας δὲ μόνον ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ."

"ἀλλήλοις θ᾽ ὁμιλεῖν, ὡς τοὺς μὲν φίλους ἐχθροὺς μὴ ποιῆσαι, τοὺς δ᾽ ἐχθροὺς φίλους ἐργάσασθαι. ἴδιόν τε μηδὲν ἡγεῖσθαι."

"ἐν ὀργῇ μήτε τι λέγειν μήτε πράσσειν"

"Reason is immortal, all else mortal."

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

"κοινὰ τὰ φίλων εἶναι καὶ φιλίαν ἰσότητα."

"Power is the near neighbour of necessity."

"Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine."

"Sobriety is the strength of the soul, for it preserves its reason unclouded by passion."

"None but God is wise."

"λόγον περὶ θεοῦ σιγᾶν ἄμεινον ἢ προπετῶς διαλέγεσθαι. (In talk about God, silence is better than reckless words.) (Sextus 366)"

"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."

"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please."

"It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families."

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

"Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life."

"Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance."

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

"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."

"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."

"There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras."

"There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity. Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. Nor ever can the overt act be erased All that thou thinkest, sayest, or doest bears perpetual record of itself, enduring for Eternity."

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

"Κυάμων ἀπέχεσθαι"

"Time is the soul of this world."

"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."

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

"A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy."

"Write in the sand the flaws of your friend."

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

"When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life."

"Sacrifice and adore unshod."

"Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas."

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

"Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods."

"The wind is blowing, adore the wind."

"Cut not fire with a sword."

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

"Step not beyond the beam of the balance."

"Having departed from your house, turn not back; for the furies will be your attendants."

"Eat not the heart."

"Eat not the brain."

"Above all things reverence thy Self."