What country are you of?

Samos.

Where were you educated?

In Egypt, among the sages there.

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

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

How will you remind me?

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

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

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

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?