"By the air which I breathe, and by the water which I drink, I will not endure to be blamed on account of this discourse."
— Pythagoras

January 1, 1970

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As reported by Heraclides Ponticus (c. 360 BC), and Diogenes Laërtius, in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect. 6, in the translation of C. D. Yonge (1853)