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A saying traditionally credited to Pythagoras; the exact short English rendering is not a surviving original.
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“Friends share all things” — Traditionally attributed to Pythagoras, reported by Diogenes Laertius; English wording varies
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Friends have all things in common.
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Diogenes Laertius reports communal friendship as a Pythagorean principle through an earlier historical source. That is ancient testimony about a tradition, rather than a surviving text written by Pythagoras himself.
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Wikiquote prints the short wording and points to Diogenes Laertius, Pythagoras, section 10.
Section ten reports the saying through Timaeus, with a different English formulation.
Stanford discusses the difficult evidence for the historical Pythagoras and later traditions.
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Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers VIII.10.
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