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“I think that when friendship and perception of kinship ruled everything, no one killed any creature, because people thought the other animals were related to them.”
— Porphyry (philosopher)

“Soul, indeed, is a certain medium between an impartible essence, and an essence which is divisible about bodies. But intellect is an impartible essence alone. And qualities and material forms are divisible about bodies.”
— Not everything which acts on another, effects that which it does effect by approximation and contact; but those natures which effect any thing by approximation and contact, use approximation accidentally.- Porphyry (philosopher)

“Animals are rational; in most of them logos is imperfect, but it is certainly not wholly lacking. So if, as our opponents say, justice applies to rational beings, why should not justice, for us, also apply to animals?”
— Porphyry (philosopher)

“Not only can logos be seen in absolutely all animals, but in many of them it has the groundwork for being perfected.”
— Porphyry (philosopher)

“Things essentially incorporeal, because they are more excellent than all body and place, are every where, not with interval, but impartibly.”
— Things essentially incorporeal are not locally present with bodies but are present with them when they please; by verging towards them so far as they are naturally adapted so to verge. They are not, however, present with them locally, but through habitude, proximity, and alliance. Things essentially incorporeal, are not present with bodies, by hypostasis and essence; for they are not mingled with bodies. But they impart a certain power which is proximate to bodies, through verging towards them. For tendency constitutes a certain secondary power proximate to bodies.- Porphyry (philosopher)

“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.”
— Porphyry (philosopher)

“Every good thing is gentle and consistent, progressing in good order and not going beyond what is right.”
— Porphyry (philosopher)

“The fleshless diet contributes to health and to a suitable endurance of hard work in philosophy.”
— Porphyry (philosopher)

“The utility of a science which enables men to take cognizance of the travellers on the mind's highway, and excludes those disorderly interlopers, verbal fallacies, needs but small attestation. Its searching penetration by definition alone, before which even mathematical precision fails, would especially commend it to those whom the abstruseness of the study does not terrify, and who recognise the valuable results which must attend discipline of mind. Like a medicine, though not a panacea for every ill, it has the health of the mind for its aim, but requires the determination of a powerful will to imbibe its nauseating yet wholesome influence: it is no wonder therefore that puny intellects, like weak stomachs, abhor and reject it.”
— Porphyry (philosopher)

“The Pythagoreans made kindness to beasts a training in humanity and pity.”
— Porphyry (philosopher)

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

“So people should abstain from other animals just as they should from the human.”
— Porphyry (philosopher)