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

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself – Pythagoras

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

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly – Pythagoras

In this theater of man’s life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on – Pythagoras

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself – Pythagoras