Strange & Unusual Sayings

1,654 sayings found from the Ancient era

Don't piss or stand on your cut nails and hair.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (interpreted later)
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Turn sharp blades away from you.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (interpreted later)
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Turn sharp blades away from you.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (interpreted later)
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When abroad, don't turn back at the border.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (interpreted 3rd century CE)
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When abroad, don't turn back at the border.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (interpreted 3rd century CE)
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Eat not the brain.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE
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Eat not the brain.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE
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Abstain from animals.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE
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Abstain from animals.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE
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The souls of animals called unreasoning are reasonable, not however with active reasoning powers, because of an imperfect mixture of the bodies and because they do not have the power of speech, as in the case of apes and dogs; for these have intellig…

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (attributed later)
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The souls of animals called unreasoning are reasonable, not however with active reasoning powers, because of an imperfect mixture of the bodies and because they do not have the power of speech, as in the case of apes and dogs; for these have intellig…

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (attributed later)
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Time is the soul of this world.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (attributed 1st-2nd century CE)
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Time is the soul of this world.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (attributed 1st-2nd century CE)
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There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE
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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.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE
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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.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (attributed later)
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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.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (attributed later)
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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.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (attributed later)
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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.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (attributed later)
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The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (attributed later)
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