As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.
Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
Choose always the way that seems the best however rough it may be custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Number rules the universe.
He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.
In this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
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...
Strength of mind rests in sobriety for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
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.
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that . . . As a wax is stamped...
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.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a...