Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.
To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.
A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.
But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.