I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neitherof us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows somethingwhen he does not, whereas when I do not know, neither do I think I know;so I am likely to be wiser than he to this small extent, that I do not thinkI know what I do not know.

from their two differing bloods, if it maintains a balance

First of all gods she contrived Love

bulk of a well-rounded sphere

what-is, since precisely this is what Fate

what-is is ungenerated and imperishable,whole, unique, steadfast, and complete.

But gaze upon things which although absent are securely present tothe mind

For thinking and being are the same

for you cannot know what is not (for it cannot be accomplished)nor can you declare it.

If all things share a commonquality, that quality will not have a name

To become wise we must learn to use the senses with insight or intelligence

nstead of recognizing that asingle truth is present everywhere

It is death for souls to become wet.

To God all things are beautiful and good and just, but humans havesupposed some unjust and others just

hey [people in general] would not have known the name of justice ifthese things [unjust things] did not exist

The most beautiful kosmos is a pile of things poured out at random

is common to all

Things taken together are whole and not whole, <something that is>being brought together and brought apart, in tune and out of tune; out ofall things there comes a unity and out of a unity all things.

ct in accordance with nature

Those who seek gold dig up much earth but find little

all

For the waking there is one common world, but when asleep each per-son turns away to a private one

Theyput their trust in popular bards and take the mob for their teacher, unawarethat most people are bad, and few are good

39) In Priene was born Bias, son of Teutames, whose worth (logos) is greaterthan the others

This Logos holds always, 3 but humans always prove unable to understandit both before hearing it and when they have first heard it

thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together for the first time

I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world

ou look like a better happier St. Sebastian

San Sebastian,

f the ox does not recover soon,take him to the slaughtcrhouse and dispose of him.

Howfortunate youare!Jamwornoutwithtoil,while youresthereincomfort.Youcatwell-sifted barleyandJacknothing.Itisonlyoccasionallythatyour masterridesyou.Asforme,mylifeisperpetualdrudgeryattheploughandthemillstone.

Give me in marriage to thisKing: cither I shall die and be a ransom for the daughters ofMoslems, or live and be the cause of their deliverance.’

He had expelled all criminal desires from it,and the small residue of that odious flamewhich remained in his soulrnerely made his paternal love stronger

were blacker and even uglier,and frightened the little children

grated hers like a turnip;another one cut a small piece off hers;93another one thought she could make hers smaller by pressing it down;still another, with a certain lotion,

I am willing, as long as the womangiven to me in matrimonyis the one that this ring fits.

ccidentally slipped off her finger and fell into the dough;but those who are considered to know the secret of this storyassure us that she put it there on purpose;

but, since he thought he was viewing a goddess,three times his arm was restrained by respect

But even the least fastidious and most wretched people,seeing her so dirty and full of Hlth,refused to hear her out or to take into their housesuch a foul creature

The princess, marveling at that wonderful garment,was almost of a mind to consent

they could be assured he would hang them all

if you should feel tl1e desi

that it never deposited feces71but, instead, beautiful three-franc pieces with the sign of the sunand twenty-franc pieces of all sorts

hat, at certain mornents, the nwst perfect mindcan enjoy even marionettes without blushing

even though no mother, husband, or confessorcan find anything in it to reproach.9

It is unbelievable, how avidly these innocent souls,whose inborn rectitude has not yet been corrupted in any way, take inthese concealed teachings;

children who havedutifully obeyed their father or mother thereby become great lords,whereas other children, who were vice-ridden and disobedient, fallinto horrible misfortune.

helps persuade women to be patient with their husbands,showing them that there is no husband so brutal or so capricious thata respectable woman's patience cannot be a match for him

The only moral to be derived from the Matron of Ephesus isthat frequently the women who seem most virtuous are really theleast and that therefore there are almost none who are truly virtuous

peo-ple fail to see what is good for them and are more pleased to beguided by Providence than t9 have everything work out according totheir desires