“When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple”
"Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus" (1904)
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Pythagoras 121
ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585–-495 BCRelated quotes
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