"Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish?"
— Pythagoras
Do Not Go To Bed Until
Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish?
About this quote
From the Golden Verses, the anthology of Pythagorean moral teaching transmitted through late antiquity. The three questions — what wrong did I do, what good did I accomplish, what duty did I leave undone — formed a daily evening practice prescribed for members of the Pythagorean community, a structured method of moral self-examination. The habit was later adopted and praised by Seneca, who describes performing the same review in his essay On Anger (De Ira, III.36).
Source
The Golden Verses of Pythagoras