"Then, at any rate, nothing that I love on earth will be lost to me before I die!" "And the enemy will perish in the same ruin!" continued Damia, her eyes sparkling with revived fire.

"But where shall we go to--where?
The soul is divine by nature and cannot be destroyed.

It must return--say, am I right or wrong ?--It will return to its first fount and cause; for like attracts and absorbs like, and thus our deification, our union with the god will be accomplished." "I believe it--I am sure of it!" replied Gorgo with conviction.
"You are sure of it ?" retorted the old woman.

"But I am not.

For our clearest knowledge is but guesswork when it is not based on numbers.
Nothing is proved or provable but by numbers, but they are surer than the rocks in the sea; that is why I believe in our coming doom, for, on those tablets, we have calculated it to a certainty.