To use Virtue is perfect blessedness.

By Silence, the discretion of a man is known: and a fool, keeping Silence, seemeth to be wise.

Use examples; that such as thou teachest may understand thee the better!

He is worst of all, that is malicious against his friends.

Let thy mind rule thy tongue!

Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.

A fool is known by his Speech; and a wise man by Silence.

Reason not with him, that will deny the principal truths!

Order thyself so, that thy Soul may always be in good estate; whatsoever become of thy body.

Evil destroyeth itself.

Hear gladly!

A solitary man is a God, or a beast.

The King that followeth Truth, and ruleth according to Justice, shall reign quietly: but he that doth the contrary, seeketh another to reign for him.

Most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth and power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.

It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.

Friends share all things.

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

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.

You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles. Such is the fate that harms their minds; like pebbles they are tossed about from one thing to another with cares unceasing. For the dread companion Strife harms them unawares, whom one must not walk behind, but withdraw from and flee.

Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.

None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.

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.

Work at these things, practice them, these are the things you ought to desire; they are what will put you on the path of divine virtue - yes, by the one who entrusted our soul with the tetraktys, source of ever-flowing nature. Pray to the gods for success and get to work.

Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.

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.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

Eat not the heart.

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacings of the spheres.

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.

Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.

It is not proper either to have a blunt sword or to use freedom of speech ineffectually. Neither is the sun to be taken from the world, nor freedom of speech from erudition.

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

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

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

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

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.

Eat not the brain.

There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity. Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. Nor ever can the overt act be erased All that thou thinkest, sayest, or doest bears perpetual record of itself, enduring for Eternity.

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

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies. As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect. 23, as translated in Dictionary of Quotations (1906) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 320

The wind is blowing, adore the wind.

Not frequently man from man.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost. Whatever griefs mortals suffer by divine chance, whatever destiny you have, endure it and do not complain. But it is right to improve it as much as you can, and remember this: Fate does not give very many of these griefs to good people.

Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.

Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.

Sobriety is the strength of the soul, for it preserves its reason unclouded by passion.

This was long thought by many to be simply a dietary proscription, and often ridiculed, but many consider it to have originally been intended as advice against getting involved in politics, for voting on issues in his time was often done by using differently colored beans. Others have stated that it might signify a more general admonition against relying on the votes of people to determine truths of reality.