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Pythagoras - It is only necessary to make war with...

It is only necessary to make war with five things with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the flesh, with the seditions of the politic and the discords of families. (Pythagoras)

It is only necessary to make war with five things with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the flesh, with the seditions of the politic and the discords of families.

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