Man's Shortcomings And Sins Are All Due

To Sum Up: I Am The Man Who When The Concern Pressed Him And His Way Was Straitened And He Could Find No Other Device By Which To Teach A Demonstrable Truth Other Than By Giving Satisfaction To A Single Virtuous Man While Displeasing Ten Thousand Ignoramuses - I Am He Who Prefers To Address That Single Man By Himself, And I Do Not Heed The Blame Of Those Many Creatures.

At Times The Truth Shines So Brilliantly That We Perceive It As Clear As Day. Our Nature And Habit Then Draw A Veil Over Our Perception, And We Return To A Darkness Almost As Dense As Before. We Are Like Those Who, Though Beholding Frequent Flashes Of Lightning, Still Find Themselves In The Thickest Darkness Of The Night.

Every Ignoramus Imagines That All That Exists, Exists With A View To His Individual Sake; It Is As If There Were Nothing That Exists Except Him. And If Something Happens To Him That Is Contrary To What He Wishes, He Makes The Trenchant Judgement That All That Exists Is An Evil.

The Second Class Of Evils Comprises Such Evils As People Cause To Each Other, When, E.g. , Some Of Them Use Their Strength Against Others. These Evils Are More Numerous Than Those Of The First Kind... They Likewise Originate In Ourselves, Though The Sufferer Himself Cannot Avert Them.

Lose With Truth And Right Rather Than Gain With Falsehood And Wrong.