What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.