Pythagoras of Samos

Help your fellow beings to lift their burden, but do not consider yourself obligated to carry it for them.

Purify your heart before allowing love to settle in it, for the sweetest honey sours in a dirty glass.

Choose a woman of whom you can say: I could have searched for someone more beautiful, but not better.

You will see that the evils of men are the result of their choices, and that the source of good is sought far away, when it is carried within their hearts.

A beautiful old age is usually the reward of a beautiful life.

Write your friend's faults in the sand.

A woman's eyes have two types of tears: those of true pain and those of spite.

Educate the children and it will not be necessary to punish the men.

A man is better off keeping his mouth shut and having others think he's a fool than opening it and removing all doubt.

Friendship is a harmonious equality.

He who does not know how to be silent does not know how to speak.

The human soul is divided into three parts: mind, wisdom, and anger.