Pythagoras

Acerca de Pythagoras

Pythagoras was a freedman of the Roman emperor Nero, whom he allegedly married in a public ceremony in which the emperor took the role of bride.

Citizenship: Ancient Rome

Resumen

Pythagoras was a freedman of the Roman emperor Nero, whom he married in a public ceremony in which the emperor took the role of bride. Life Little is known about Pythagoras' background except that he was a freedman who accompanied Nero. Marriage to Nero In the year 64, during the Saturnalia, Tigellinus offered a series of banquets to Nero, after a few days of which Nero performed a marriage to Pythagoras:

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Notable quotes

“By the air which I breathe, and by the water which I drink, I will not endure to be blamed on account of this discourse.”
— As reported by Heraclides Ponticus (c. 360 BC), and Diogenes Laërtius, in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect. 6, in the translation of C. D. Yonge (1853)
“Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.”
— As quoted in The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors (1853) by Everard Berkeley
“Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.”
— As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists‎ (2007) by James Geary
“Above and before all things, worship GOD!”
— As quoted in The Sayings of the Wise: Or, Food for Thought: A Book of Moral Wisdom, Gathered from the Ancient Philosophers (1555) by William Baldwin [1908 edition]
“It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.”
— "Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus" (1904)
“None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.”
— As quoted in Florilegium, XVIII, 23, as translated in Dictionary of Quotations (1906) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 368

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