Giving Is Most Blessed And Most Acceptable

The Error Of The Ignorant Goes So Far As To Say That God's Power Is Insufficient, Because He Has Given To This Universe The Properties Which They Imagine Cause These Great Evils, And Which Do Not Help All Evil-disposed Persons To Obtain The Evil Which They Seek, And To Bring Their Evil Souls To The Aim Of Their Desires, Though These, As We Have Shown, Are Really Without Limit.

The Soul Is Subject To Health And Disease, Just As Is The Body. The Health And Disease Of Both . . . Undoubtedly Depend Upon Beliefs And Customs, Which Are Peculiar To Mankind.

He Who Thinks He Can Have Flesh And Bones Without Being Subject To Any External Influence, Or Any Accidents Of Matter, Unconsciously Wishes To Reconcile Two Opposites, Viz., To Be At The Same Time Subject And Not Subject To Change. If Man Were Never Subject To Change There Could Be No Generation; There Would Be One Single Being, But No Individuals Forming A Species.

Know That The Difficulties Which Lead To Confusion In The Question What Is The Purpose Of The Universe Or Of Any Of Its Parts, Arise From Two Causes: First, Man Has An Erroneous Idea Of Himself, And Believes That The Whole World Exists Only For His Sake; Secondly, He Is Ignorant Both About The Nature Of The Sublunary World, And About The Creator's Intention To Give Existence To All Beings Whose Existence Is Possible, Because Existence Is Undoubtedly Good.

Astrology Is A Disease, Not A Science... It Is A Tree Under The Shadow Of Which All Sorts Of Superstitions Thrive. ... Only Fools And Charlatans Lend Value To It.