Pythagoras said, that intoxication is the meditation of insanity. Stob. p. 165.
Pythagoras being asked, how a lover of wine might be cured of intoxication, answered, if he frequently surveys what his actions were when he was intoxicated. Stob. p. 165.
Pythagoras said, that it was either requisite to be silent, or to say something better than silence. Stob. p. 215.
Let it be more eligible to you to throw a stone in vain, than to utter an idle word. Pythagoras. Stob. p. 215.
Do not say a few things in many words, but much in a few words. Pythagoras. Stob. p. 216.
Genius is to men either a good or an evil dæmon. Epicharmus. Stob. p. 220.
Pythagoras being asked, how a man ought to conduct himself towards his country, when it had acted iniquitously with respect to him, replied, as to a mother. Stob. p. 227.
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.