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On Pythagoras

the golden verses

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Richard L. Johnson
Oct 27, 2021
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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths - Pythagoras

The ancients had the habit of comparing with gold all that they deemed without defects and pre-eminently beautiful: thus, by the Golden Age they understood, the age of virtues and of happiness; and by the Golden Verses, the verses, wherein was concealed the most pure doctrine. They c…

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