Just As We Would Have No Need Of The Farmer's Labor And Toil If We Were Living Amid The Delights Of Paradise, So Also We Would Not Require The Medical Art For Relief If We Were Immune To Disease, As Was The Case, By God's Gift, At The Time Of Creation Before The Fall.
Now, If You Notice How The Swan, Putting Its Neck Down Into The Deep Water, Brings Up Food For Itself From Below, Then You Will Discover The Wisdom Of The Creator, In That He Gave It A Neck Longer Than Its Feet For This Reason, That It Might, As If Lowering A Sort Of Fishing Line, Procure The Food Hidden In The Deep Water.
Good Masters Teach Good Doctrine, But That Taught By Evil Masters Is Wholly Evil.
Any One Who Chooses Will Set Up For A Literary Critic, Though He Cannot Tell Us Where He Went To School, Or How Much Time Was Spent In His Education, And Knows Nothing About Letters At All.
Let Sleep Itself Be An Exercise In Piety, For Such As Our Life And Conduct Have Been, So Also Of Necessity Will Be Our Dreams.
Do Not, As Is Usually The Case, Thrust The Care Of The Common Weal Upon Your Neighbor; Then, As Each One In His Own Thoughts Makes Light Of The Matter, All Find To Their Surprise That They Have Drawn Upon Themselves By Their Neglect A Personal Misfortune.
We Do Not Accost A Physician As We Do Any Mere Nobody; Nor A Magistrate As We Do A Private Individual. We Try To Get Some Advantage From The Skill Of The One And The Position Of The Other. Walk In The Sun, And Your Shadow Will Follow You, Whether You Will Or Not.
Science Which Is Acquired Unwillingly, Soon Disappears; That Which Is Instilled Into The Mind In A Pleasant And Agreeable Manner, Is More Lasting.
She Who Has Intentionally Destroyed [the Fetus] Is Subject To The Penalty Corresponding To A Homicide. For Us, There Is No Scrutinizing Between The Formed And Unformed [fetus]; Here Truly Justice Is Made Not Only For The Unborn But Also With Reference To The Person Who Is Attentive Only To Himself/herself Since So Many Women Generally Die For This Very Reason.
First And Foremost, The Monk Should Own Nothing In This World, But He Should Have As His Possessions Solitude Of The Body, Modesty Of Bearing, A Modulated Tone Of Voice, And A Well-ordered Manner Of Speech. He Should Be Without Anxiety As To His Food And Drink, And Should Eat In Silence.
Do Not Despise The Fish Because They Are Absolutely Unable To Speak Or To Reason, But Fear Lest You May Be Even More Unreasonable Than They By Resisting The Command Of The Creator. Listen To The Fish, Who Through Their Actions All But Utter This Word: 'we Set Out On This Long Journey For The Perpetuation Of Our Species.
