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Fragment 3. The harmony is generally the result of contraries; for it is the unity of multiplicity, and the agreement of discordances.
Philolaus
The essence of things is eternal.
Philolaus
All things, at least those we know, contain number.
Philolaus
The ancient theologists and priests... testify that the soul is united with the body as if for the sake of punishment; and so is buried in body as in a sepulchre.
Philolaus
There is a fire in the middle at the centre, which is the Vesta of the universe, the house of Jupiter, the mother of the Gods, and the basis coherence and measure of nature.
Philolaus
[Number is] the commanding and self-begotten container of the eternal duration of mundane concerns.
Philolaus