I must admit the admiration that was bestowed upon Pythagoras was indeed deserved. It was prophetized that he was to be a great man, so his father decide he was to be well educated and he traveled to learn what he could from the best for most of his life, which was a supposed long life of about 100 years. His major contributions where to the mathematical realm. He believed that the world could be understood through the study of numbers. His most famous contribution was the Pythagorean Theorem.

The chapter that stood out most to me is the chapter regarding friendship. At the beginning I couldn't tell if he was referring to politics, mathematics, or friendship, but I came to the conclusion it was applicable to politics and friendship, possibly mathematics as well but it would have to be interpreted differently. I understood that he believed that friendship is something that is to be honored and by no circumstance other than hatred should a friendship be broken. He valued friendship as a divine relationship that connects people and keeps people together. I think more people and countries should see the relationship between people in this manner, friendship as more than a convenience on what one can get out of the other but more on what a person can give to another. It would really help the way that people interact with one another and see each other.