"Pythagoras said, that it was requisite either to be silent, or to say something better than silence."

“The life of the avaricious resembles a funeral banquet. For though it has all things requisite to a feast, yet no one present rejoices.”

“Expel by reasoning the unrestrained grief of a torpid soul.”

“Other dogs bite their enemies, but I my friends in order to save them.”

“The things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.”

“Spare your life, lest you consume it with sorrow and care.”

“Pythagoras being asked how a man ought to conduct himself towards his country, when it had acted iniquitously with respect to him, replied, as to a mother.”