The earth affords a lavish supply of richess of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.
PythagorasThou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.
Pythagorasmost men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.
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