Tao Te Ching

“A mystery enwrapped Pythagoras, the preacher of vegetarianism; no philosopher since him has pondered on the essence of the world, without recurring to his teaching. Silent fellowships were founded, remote from turmoil of the world, to carry out this doctrine as a sanctification from sin and misery.”

— Wilhelm Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883 CE via William Ashton Ellis
from Religion and Art (1880)