26. Virtue demands preliminary purification.
27. Our effort at assimilation should be directed not at mere respectability, but at the gods themselves.
28. One should study mathematics in order to accustom oneself to think of incorporeal things, and to believe in their existence.
29. Soul is not in body, but body in Soul.
30. The Soul's higher part remains in heaven.
31. We should not leave the earth, but not be of it.
32. The object of life is not to avoid evil, or copy the good, but to become good.
33. Dying, to Eustochius: "I am awaiting you, in order to draw the divine in me to the divine in all."