Hold Firmly To Your Word.

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.

One Should See The World, And See Himself As A Scale With An Equal Balance Of Good And Evil. When He Does One Good Deed The Scale Is Tipped To The Good - He And The World Is Saved. When He Does One Evil Deed The Scale Is Tipped To The Bad - He And The World Is Destroyed.

The Soul, When Accustomed To Superfluous Things, Acquires A Strong Habit Of Desiring Things Which Are Neither Necessary For The Preservation Of The Individual Nor For That Of The Species. This Desire Is Without Limit, Whilst Those Which Are Necessary Are Few In Number And Restricted Within Certain Limits; But What Is Superfluous Is Without End.

Work Before Eating, Rest After Eating. Eat Not Ravenously, Filling The Mouth Gulp After Gulp Without Breathing Space.

The Mutakallemim... Apply The Term Non-existence Only To Absolute Non-existence, And Not To Absence Of Properties. A Property And The Absence Of That Property Are Considered By Them As Two Opposites, They Treat, E.g. , Blindness And Sight, Death And Life, In The Same Way As Heat And Cold. Therefore They Say, Without Any Qualification, Non-existence Does Not Require Any Agent, An Agent Is Required When Something Is Produced.