Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.