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Quotes from Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus — Pythagoras

570 BC–496 BC Greece

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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)

It is requisite to choose the most excellent life; for custom will make it pleasant.

Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus (1904)

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

Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus (1904)

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)

Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.

Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus (1904)

Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.

Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus (1904)

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple

Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus (1904)

Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.

Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus (1904)

Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done.

Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus (1904)

Neither will the horse be adjudged to be generous, that is sumptuously adorned, but the horse whose nature is illustrious; nor is the man worthy who possesses great wealth, but he whose soul is generous.

Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus (1904)

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