Pythagoras

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

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

No man is free who cannot command himself.

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

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

It is better to be mute than to dispute with the ignorant.

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.

Number is the within of all things.

The properties of number exist in a divine, immaterial realm, and the physical world is a manifestation of this realm.

The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

Harmony is the unification of opposites, the agreement of discordants.

The universe is a harmony of contraries.

Justice is a number, multiplied by itself.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

The wind is blowing. Worship the sound.

Time is the soul of this world.