Pythagoras In addition to these, counting. Buyer I can count now. Pythagoras How do you do it? Buyer One, two, three, four. Pythagoras Look, now; what you deem four is really ten, and a perfect triangle, and what we swear by. Buyer Hear me swear a mighty oath: by Four, I never heard diviner or more holy words. Pythagoras And after that, stranger, you will have knowledge concerning earth and air and water and fire-the mass of each, and what form it has, and what motion by consequence. Buyer Then has fire form, or air, or water? Pythagoras Very clear forms, for the formless and shapeless is immovable; and besides these things you will know that God is number and mind and harmony. Buyer This is startling!