Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds? … It is certainly not lions and wolves that we eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless, tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us, creatures that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the sake of their beauty and grace. But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice, not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that may be found in the poor wretches. No, for the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being.

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Mots clés animals vegan vegetarian meat-is-murder plutarch pythagoras

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...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

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Mots clés friendship

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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

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It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

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Mots clés inspirational art criticism critics

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The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

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