The Golden Verses of Pythagoras

This little collection of sayings, attributed to the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras and his followers, embody what we know about his teachings today. Besides exhortations to live a moral, simple and contemplative life, these pithy aphorisms allow a glimpse of a bit of the Pythagorean schools' deeper knowledge. Introduction The Golden Verses of Pythagoras Notes on the Golden Verses of Pythagoras from the Commentaries of Hierocles The Golden Sentences of Democrates The Pythagorean Sentences of Demophilus The Similitudes of Demophilus Pythagorean Ethical Sentences from Stobæus Select Sentences of Sextus the Pythagorean Pythagorean Sentences from the Protreptics of Iamblichus The Symbols of Pythagoras