S.A. Bent, comp. Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men. 1887.
Pythagoras
[The celebrated philosopher; born in Samos, about 600 B.C.; visited foreign countries, and settled in Crotona, Italy, where he founded his brotherhood, which soon became the controlling power in the state; according to some accounts, he perished during an attack upon one of his meetings, or else died at Metapontum after his sect had been expelled from Crotona.]
The caution against undue enthusiasm, which is contained in the “Epistles” of Horace, I. 6, 1, and is attributed by Plutarch to Pythagoras; called by Dr. Arnold “the Devil’s favorite text.”
