"Every good thing is gentle and consistent, progressing in good order and not going beyond what is right."

“Porphyry, On the Cave of Nymphs, translated by Thomas Taylor”

“So people should abstain from other animals just as they should from the human.”

“Every body is in place; but nothing essentially incorporeal, or any thing of this kind, has any locality.”

“Incorporeal hypostases, in descending, are distributed into parts, and multiplied about individuals with a diminution of power; but when they ascend by their energies beyond bodies, they become united, and proceed into a simultaneous subsistence, through exuberance of power.”

“The Pythagoreans made kindness to beasts a training in humanity and pity.”

“Porphyry, Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures, translated by Thomas Taylor”