“There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
Of himself, as quoted in A History of Western Philosophy (1945) by Bertrand Russell
“Pythagoras said, that of cities that was the best which contained most worthy men.”
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