"Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body."
— Pythagoras

January 1, 1970

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Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body. — As quoted in Florilegium, I.22, as translated in Dictionary of Quotations (1906) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 396