Anil

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

“It is a fact, indeed, that most of
the great teachers of mankind have been not writers
but speakers. Think of Pythagoras, Christ, Socrates,
the Buddha, and so on. And since I have spoken of
Socrates, I would like to say something about Plato. I
remember Bernard Shaw said that Plato was the dramatist
who invented Socrates”
― Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse

“As soon as you awake, in order lay
the actions to be done the coming day”
― Pythagoras

“She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself; the silly ones could never understand her wisdom; whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - always understood her silliness.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady