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1619-1628

  • Otherwise the lion and elephant because of (their) strength would be superior to the human being, O blind one.
  • The superiority of men to women, O time-server, is because man is more regardful of the end. 1620
  • The man who is crooked in respect of seeing the end, he, like a woman, is inferior to those acquainted with the end.
  • From the World are coming two cries in opposition (to each other): (bethink thyself) for which (of them) thou art adapted.
  • Its one cry is the (means of) quickening the devout with (spiritual) life; and its other cry is the (means of) cajoling the graceless.
  • (The World says), “I am the thorn-blossom, O sweet cherisher (of love for me): the flower will drop and I shall remain a (mere) thorn-bough.”
  • The cry of its (the World's) blossom is, “Here is the flower-seller!” The cry of its thorn is, “Do not strive (to advance) towards me.” 1625
  • (If) thou hast accepted (responded to) this (alluring cry), thou art left (unmoved) by the other, for a lover is deaf to the contrary of the object loved (by him).
  • The one cry is this, “Here am I, ready”; the other cry is, “Look upon my latter end.
  • My readiness is like guile and ambush: behold the image of the end in the mirror of the beginning.”