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“Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.”
― Pythagoras

“Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”
― Pythagoras

“No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.”
― Pythagoras

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

“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.”
― Pythagoras

“There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres. ”
― Pythagoras

“Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.”
― Pythagoras

“Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!”
― pythagoras

“Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.”
― Pythagoras

“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.”
― Pythagoras

“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.”
― Pythagoras

“The oldest, shortest words— "yes" and "no"— are those which require the most thought.”
― Pythagoras

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

“All is Number”
― Pythagoras

“In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.”
― Pythagoras

“Reason is immortal, all else mortal.”
― Pythagoras

“No man is free who cannot control himself.”
― Pythagoras

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

“Above all things, respect yourself.”
― Pythagoras

“Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.”
― Pythagoras

“We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.”
― Pythagoras

“Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.”
― Pythagoras

“Number rules the universe.”
― Pythagoras

“Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.”
― Pythagoras

“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.”
― Pythagoras

“It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.”
― Pythagoras

“As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.”
― Pythagoras

“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.”
― Pythagoras

“A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.”
― Pythagoras