Truth Does Not Become More True By

While One Man Can Discover A Certain Thing By Himself, Another Is Never Able To Understand It, Even If Taught By Means Of All Possible Expressions And Metaphors, And During A Long Period; His Mind Can In No Way Grasp It, His Capacity Is Insufficient For It.

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.

We Are Obligated To Be More Scrupulous In Fulfilling The Commandment Of Charity Than Any Other Positive Commandment Because Charity Is The Sign Of A Righteous Man.

It Is No Wrong Or Injustice That One Has Many Bags Of The Finest Myrrh And Garments Embroidered With Gold, While Another Has Not Those Things, Which Are Not Necessary For Our Maintenance; He Who Has Them Has Not Thereby Obtained Control Over Anything That Could Be An Essential Addition To His Nature, But Has Only Obtained Something Illusory Or Deceptive. ...this Is The Rule At All Times And In All Places; No Notice Should Be Taken Of Exceptional Cases, As We Have Explained.

When I Have A Difficult Subject Before Me - When I Find The Road Narrow, And Can See No Other Way Of Teaching A Well Established Truth Except By Pleasing One Intelligent Man And Displeasing Ten Thousand Fools - I Prefer To Address Myself To The One Man, And To Take No Notice Whatever Of The Condemnation Of The Multitude; I Prefer To Extricate That Intelligent Man From His Embarrassment And Show Him The Cause Of His Perplexity, So That He May Attain Perfection And Be At Peace.