"Pythagoras was unlike his predecessors"

“When asked what he professed himself to be, Pythagoras was unlike his predecessors and would lay no claim to be a wise man, for to him that appeared presumptuous; he professed to be a philosopher, that is a lover of wisdom.”

~St. Thomas Aquinas: Commentary, I Metaphysics, lect. 3.

The School of Athens (detail: Pythagoras), by Raffaelo Sanzio (Raphael).
Fresco, 1509; Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican.