Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

...the Gods too love a joke.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

God is a geometrician.

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.