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And while he was Euphorbus, he used to say that he [Pythagoras] had formerly been Aethalides, and that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into whatever plants or animals it pleased.

— Diogenes Laërtius

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Source: in: D. Nickerson The origin of thought, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1901, p. 333
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