The soul should concentrate itself by itself.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.