And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.
From Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.
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