"O ye gods, grant unto me that which I deserve."
Apollonius of Tyana
"O ye gods, grant unto me that which I deserve."
Apollonius of Tyana
"For I discerned a certain sublimity in the discipline of Pythagoras, and how a certain secret wisdom enabled him to know, not only who he was himself, but also who he had been; and I saw that he approached the altars in purity, and suffered not his belly to be polluted by partaking of the flesh of animals; and that he kept his body pure of all garments woven of dead animal refuse; and that he was the first of mankind to restrain his tongue, inventing a discipline of silence described in the proverbial phrase, "An ox sits upon it." I also saw that his philosophical system was in other respects oracular and true. So I ran to embrace his teachings..." - Apollonius of Tyana
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Link to partial translation of Philostratus' _The Life of Apollonius of Tyana_