The Golden Verses of Pythagoras

I am always intrigued by cultural continuity, the capacity for ideas or memes to continue on down the generations through stories, songs, and linguistic phrases. I have blogged before on George Washington's The Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation in Published in France, by the Jesuits

Here is another instance. In this close to raw translation of The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, there is almost a feel of The Rules of Civility.

We may phrase it differently today, but many of these injunctions remain alive and well in families near and far.