Pythagoras
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I was Euphorbus at the siege of Troy.
— As reported by Heraclides Ponticus (c. 360 BC), and Diogenes Laërtius (Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect. 4),
Pythagoras
Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
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Lived -582–-490, aged 92
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He's credited with the theorem every schoolkid memorizes, though historians aren't sure he proved it himself. What's certain: he ran a secretive commune in southern Italy, preached that souls migrate between bodies after death, and called himself the first "philosopher" — a word he may have coined.
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Pythagoras left the Greek island of Samos around 570 BC and travelled to Croton in southern Italy circa 530 BC, where he founded a school steeped in secrecy, communal living, and ascetic discipline. In antiquity he was credited with discovering the Pythagorean theorem, the five regular solids, the sphericity of the Earth, and the identity of the morning and evening stars as Venus — though modern scholars suspect many of these breakthroughs came from his followers, like Hippasus and Philolaus. The teaching most firmly his own: metempsychosis, the belief that immortal souls enter new bodies afte…
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Pythagoras
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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.
— As reported by Heraclides Ponticus (c. 360 BC), and Diogenes Laërtius, in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect.
Pythagoras
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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
Pythagoras
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Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
— As quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Sect. 30, as translated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925); also in The Demon and the
Pythagoras
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The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.
— As quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, as translated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925)
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