Anticipate Charity By Preventing Poverty.

You Must Consider, When Reading This Treatise, That Mental Perception, Because Connected With Matter, Is Subject To Conditions Similar To Those To Which Physical Perception Is Subject.

The Physician Should Not Treat The Disease But The Patient Who Is Suffering From It

I Will Destroy My Enemies By Converting Them To Friends.

First Theory . There Is No Providence At All For Anything In The Universe; All Parts Of The Universe, The Heavens And What They Contain, Owe Their Origin To Accident And Chance; There Exists No Being That Rules And Governs Them Or Provides For Them. This Is The Theory Of Epicurus.

Just As A Person Is Commanded To Honor And Revere His Father, So He Is Under An Obligation To Honor And Revere His Teacher, Even To A Greater Extent Than His Father; For His Father Gave Him Life In This World, While His Teacher Instructs Him In Wisdom, Secures For Him Life In The World To Come.