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Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.
Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.
Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.
Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus (1904)
There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.
Dispose thy Soul to all good and necessary things!
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.
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.
It is requisite to choose the most excellent life; for custom will make it pleasant.
Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus (1904)
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.
Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus (1904)
Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day.
Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost.
The best and greatest winning is a true friend; and the greatest loss is the loss of time.
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
Time is the soul of this world.
Wisdom (2002)
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
The Mystery of Matter (1965)
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.
It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.
Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus (1904)
Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body.
Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus (1904)