“Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine,
And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.”
As reported by Heraclides, son of Sarapion, and Diogenes Laërtius, in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect. 7, in the translation of C. D. Yonge (1853)
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