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“Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Platonic Questions. viii. 4.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7d43ddd98ab436622b6164c78dcfe8d968f735d8f7d2c9a9eb5ae710b59034ef
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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