"[Number is] the commanding and self-begotten container of the eternal duration of mundane concerns."
— Number

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Philolaus (c. 420 BCE) as quoted by Aristotle, Metaphysics (ca. 350 BC) Tr. Thomas Taylor, The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries of Proclus on the First Book of Euclid's Elements (1792) Vol. 1, p. xix.