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The Sale of Lives (3)

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Buyer

What country are you of?

Pythagoras

Samos.

Buyer

Where were you educated?

Pythagoras

In Egypt, among the sages there.

Buyer

Well, then, if I buy you what will you teach me?

Pythagoras

I will not teach you anything. I will remind you.

Buyer

How will you remind me?

Pythagoras

By first making your soul clean, and washing off the filth that is on it.

Buyer

Now, suppose me already purified, what is your method of reminding?

Pythagoras

The first step is a long, speechless silence; you must not say a word for five whole years.

Buyer

You ought to teach mutes, my friend. But I am a talker with no desire to become a graven image. All the same, what comes after the silence and the five-year term?

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Pythagoras

Practise in music and geometry.

Buyer

That is a nice statement! If I am to become a philosopher I must first learn to play the harp!

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