I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

In them he thought he had discovered what according to Plato God alone knows and he among men who is loved by him namely the elements or principia of the Platonic triangles. Xenocrates adhered closely to the Platonist doctrine and he is accounted the typical representative of the Old Academy. According to Plutarch Xenocrates result was 1002000000000 (a "myriad-and-twenty times a myriad-myriad").

Unity and duality he considered to be gods which rule the universe and the soul is a self-moving number. 396/5 – 314/3 BC) of Chalcedon was a Greek philosopher mathematician and leader (scholarch) of the Platonic Academy from 339/8 to 314/3 BC. He distinguiXenocratesd three forms of being the sensible the intelligible and a third compounded of the two to which correspond respectively sense intellect and opinion.