The Stars In The Heavens Sing A

Number Is The Ruler Of Forms And Ideas, And The Cause Of Gods And Demons.

It Is Better To Be Silent, Than To Dispute With The Ignorant.

The Animals Share With Us The Privilege Of Having A Soul Alas, What Wickedness To Swallow Flesh Into Our Own Flesh, To Fatten Our Greedy Bodies By Cramming In Other Bodies, To Have One Living Creature Fed By The Death Of Another! In The Midst Of Such Wealth As Earth, The Best Of Mothers, Provides, Yet Nothing Satisfies You, But To Behave Like The Cyclopes, Inflicting Sorry Wounds With Cruel Teeth! You Cannot Appease The Hungry Cravings Of Your Wicked, Gluttonous Stomachs Except By Destroying Some Other Life.

Neither Will The Horse Be Adjudged To Be Generous, That Is Sumptuously Adorned, But The Horse Whose Nature Is Illustrious; Nor Is The Man Worthy Who Possesses Great Wealth, But He Whose Soul Is Generous.

Reason Is Immortal, All Else Mortal.