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> [Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diogenes-laertius/pythagoras-used-to-say-that-he-had-received-as-a-gift-from-mercury/)

[Diogenes Laertius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diogenes-laertius/)

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> [If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sallust/if-the-transmigration-of-a-soul-takes-place-into-a-rational-being-it/)

[Sallust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sallust/)

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> [“The retribution cannot be explained by the doctrine of the transmigration of the soul, for it is incompatible with the fundamental doctrine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kaiten-nukariya/the-retribution-cannot-be-explained-by-the-doctrine-of-the/)

[Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kaiten-nukariya/)

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> [“Constant transmigration of the soul from one body to another is the cause of suffering in material existence. This conditional life in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/constant-transmigration-of-the-soul-from-one-body-to-another-is-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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