Pythagoras — "It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body…"

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
Pythagoras — Pythagoras Ancient · Pythagorean theorem, mathematics

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Date: c. 570-495 BCE (attributed later)

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