Pythagoras — "Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths."

"Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you."

"The universe is a living creature, endowed with soul and reason."

"Number is the within of all things."

"The strangest (and sexiest) of the legends surrounding the aura of Pythagoras is that he had a golden thigh that he would show to impress people he wanted to join his cult."

"The souls of animals called unreasoning are reasonable, not however with active reasoning powers, because of an imperfect mixture of the bodies and because they do not have the power of speech, as in …"