Travelling teaches a man frugality, and the way in which he may be sufficient to himself. For bread made of milk and flower, and a bed of grass, are the sweetest remedies of hunger and labor.
To the wise man every land is eligible as a place of residence; for the whole world is the country of the worthy soul.[86] Stob. p. 231.
Pythagoras said, that luxury entered into cities in the first place, afterwards satiety, then lascivious insolence, and after all these destruction. Stob. p. 247.
Pythagoras said, that of cities that was the best, which contained worthy men. Stob. p. 247.
Do those things which you judge to be beautiful, though in doing them you should be without renown. For the rabble is a bad judge of a good thing. [Despise therefore the reprehension of those whose praise you despise.] Demophilus. Stob. p. 310.[87]
Those that do not punish bad men, wish that good men may be injured. Pythagoras. Stob. p. 321.
It is not possible for a horse to be governed without a bridle, or riches without prudence. Pythagoras. Stob. p. 513.
It is the same thing to think greatly of yourself in prosperity, as to contend in the race in a slippery road. Stob. p. 563.
There is not any gate of wealth so secure, which the opportunity of Fortune may not open. Stob. p. 563.[88]
Expel by reasoning the unrestrained grief of a torpid soul. Stob. p. 572.
It is the province of a wise man to bear poverty with equanimity. Stob. p. 572.[89]
Spare your life, lest you consume it with sorrow and care. Pythagoras. Stob. p. 616.
Nor will I be silent as to this particular, that it appeared both to Plato and Pythagoras, that old age was not to be considered with reference to an egress from the present life, but to the beginning of a blessed life. From Phavorinus on Old Age. Stob. p. 585.
The two following extracts are from Clemens Alexandrinus in Stromat. lib. 3. p. 413.
The ancient theologists and priests testify that the soul is conjoined to the body through a certain punishment, and that it is buried in this body as in a sepulchre. Philolaus.
Whatever we see when awake is death; and when asleep, a dream. Pythagoras.
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN.
To neglect things of the smallest consequence, is not the least thing in human life.