"Can you really ask for 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 body."
~ Plutarch
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