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Golden Verses of Pythagoras

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Contents

Preface
Introduction
The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
Notes on the Golden Verses — From the Commentaries of Hierocles
The Golden Sentences of Democrates
Pythagorean Ethical Sentences from Stobaeus
Select Sentences of Sextus the Pythagorean
Pythagorean Sentences from Iamblichus
The Symbols of Pythagoras

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