Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human act…

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He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate …

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The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.

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