Silence is better than unmeaning words. Pythagoras quotes collection

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

Who is Pythagoras? Pythagoras of Samos was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, Western philosophy.

1. 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

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

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

4. Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men. ― Pythagoras

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

6. Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few! ― Pythagoras

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

8. Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything. ― Pythagoras

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

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

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

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

13. Silence is better than unmeaning words. ― Pythagoras

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

15. 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 

16. 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

17. Declining from the public ways, walking in unfrequented paths. ― Pythagoras

18. We ought to behave to one another so as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies. ― Pythagoras
Friends are companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. ― Pythagoras

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

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

21. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ― Martin Luther King Jr.

22. Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. ― George Washington

23. Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. ― Nelson Mandela

24. It’s never crowded along the extra mile. ― Wayne Dyer

25. It doesn’t matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general:

The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline. ― Harvey Mackay

26. What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are:

and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline. ― H.P. Liddon