Sirach 42:7 (WEB)
Whatever you hand over, let it be by number and weight. In giving and receiving, let all be in writing.
Fathers and councils · 1
“That Pythagoras was not the only one who duly honoured arithmetic, but that his best known disciples did so too, being wont to say that “all things fit number.”” — editor's note: [Wisd. xi. 20; Ecclus. xxxviii. 29 and xlii. 7.]
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