Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.

— Diogenes Laërtius The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)

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