Seneca the Younger

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures. . . let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.