Untitled : THE GOLDEN VERSES OF PYTHAGORAS And Other Pythagorean Fragments SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY FLORENCE M. FIRTH With An Introduction By Annie Besant [1904] This little collection of sayings, attributed to the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras and his followers, embody what we know about his...
The Golden Sentences Of Democrates : p. 18 THE GOLDEN SENTENCES OF DEMOCRATES 1. If anyone will give his mind to these sentences, he will obtain many things worthy of a man, and be free from many things that are base. 2. The perfection of the soul will correct the depravity of the body; but the strength of the body without reasoning...
The Symbols Of Pythagoras : p. 67 THE SYMBOLS OF PYTHAGORAS All the Symbols are exhortatory in common to the whole of virtue; but particularly each to some particular virtue. Different symbols also are differently adapted to parts of philosophy and discipline. Thus for instance the first Symbol directly exhorts to piety...
Pythagorean Sentences From The Protreptics : p. 62 PYTHAGOREAN SENTENCES FROM THE PROTREPTICS OF IAMBLICHUS 1. As we live through soul, it must be said that by the virtue of this we live well; just as because we see through the eyes, we see well through the virtue of these. 2. It must not be thought that gold can be injured by rust...
The Pythagorean Sentences Of Demophilus : p. 29 THE PYTHAGOREAN SENTENCES OF DEMOPHILUS 1. Request not of Divinity such things as, when obtained, you cannot preserve; for no gift of Divinity can ever be taken away; and on this account he does not confer that which you are unable to retain. 2. Be vigilant in your intellectual part;...
Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobaeus : p. 45 PYTHAGOREAN ETHICAL SENTENCES FROM STOBUS 1. Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done. 2. Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body. 3. Be persuaded that things of a laborious nature contribute more than pleasures to virtue. 4. Every passion of the soul is most hostile...
The Golden Verses Of Pythagoras : p. 1 THE GOLDEN VERSES OF PYTHAGORAS 1. First worship the Immortal Gods, as they are established and ordained by the Law. 2. Reverence the Oath, and next the Heroes, full of goodness and light. 3. Honour likewise the Terrestrial Dmons by rendering them the worship lawfully due to them. p. 2 4...
The Similitudes Of Demophilus : p. 37 THE SIMILITUDES OF DEMOPHILUS 1. Flattery is like painted armour, because it affords delight, but is of no use. 2. Learning is similar to a golden crown; for it is both honourable and advantageous. 3. Flighty men, like empty vessels, are easily laid hold of by the ears. 1 4. Life, like...
Introduction : p. vii INTRODUCTION The ripe sayings of the Ancient Wisdom, as spoken again in the world of Greece--a world so much vaster than the area of the Greek peninsula--are somewhat fading from the minds born anew into the hurrying life of the twentieth-century West. But the West cannot afford to let them...
Title Page : THE GOLDEN VERSES OF PYTHAGORAS AND OTHER PYTHAGOREAN FRAGMENTS Selected and Arranged by FLORENCE M. FIRTH With an Introduction by Annie Besant THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE (American Branch) KROTONA, HOLLYWOOD, CAL. [1904] scanned , October 2002. John B. Hare, redactor.
Notes On The Golden Verses Of Pythag : p. 9 NOTES ON THE GOLDEN VERSES OF PYTHAGORAS FROM THE COMMENTARIES OF HIEROCLES. The Golden Verses may be divided into two parts, the first treating of the Practical or Human Virtues, whose aim is the making of Good Men; and the second, treating of the "Contemplative" or Divine Virtues, the end...
Preface : p. v PREFACE IN this small volume an attempt has been made to gather together the best and most reliable of the sets of Ethical Verses attributed to the Pythagoreans. Both Hall's translation from the Greek (1657), and Rowe's translation from the French of Andr Dacier (1707), have been used...
Select Sentences Of Sextus The Pythagorean : p. 53 SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN 1. To neglect things of the smallest consequence, is not the least thing in human life. 2. The wise man, and the despiser of wealth, resemble God. 3. Do not investigate the name of God, because you will not find it. For every thing which is called...
