“Almost all people are defenders of their own mistakes, and accusers of other people’s”;

“At a tribunal in Rome, Apollonius of Tyana was asked: ‘Why do people call you a god?’ ‘Because,’ he replied, ‘every person who is good has the right to be called so’”;

“There is no death, and there is no birth”;

“Your temple has turned into a den of robbers”;

“Drunkenness and gluttony are the cause of many diseases”;

“Lying is the mark of a slave, while truth is noble”;

“If someone gives money to Apollonius, and the giver is considered an honest man, he will take the money if he needs it. But he will not accept payment for philosophy, even if he needs it”;

“Pythagoras said that medicine is the most divine of the arts. But if it is the most divine, it must care for both soul and body; otherwise a living being must be unhealthy, being sick in its highest part”.

(Apollonius of Tyana (1st century AD) was a Neo-Pythagorean philosopher and mystic.)