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Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
Approximate author period: c. 83 AD · classical
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- Approximate author period: c. 83 AD · classical
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Platonic Questions. viii. 4.
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