Pythagoras

"Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ough…"

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

"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…"

"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."

"When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life."

"The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil."

"Having departed from your house, turn not back; for the furies will be your attendants."

"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 th…"