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1088-1097

  • To this one the water in the orchard is lawful, to that one (it is) unlawful. In the end thou wilt see the difference, and (so) farewell.
  • What is justice? Giving water to trees. What is injustice? To give water to thorns.
  • Justice is (consists in) bestowing a bounty in its proper place, not on every root that will absorb water. 1090
  • What is injustice? To bestow (it) in an improper place that can only be a source of calamity.
  • Bestow the bounty of God on the spirit and reason, not on the (carnal) nature full of disease and complications.
  • Load the conflict of (worldly) cares upon thy body: do not lay thy anxiety upon the heart and spirit.
  • The pack is laid upon the head of Jesus, (while) the ass is frisking in the meadow.
  • ’Tis not right to put collyrium in the ear: ’tis not right to demand from the body the work of the heart (spirit). 1095
  • If thou art a (devotee of the) heart, go, scorn (the world), do not suffer contumely (from it); and if thou art a (devotee of the) body, do not eat sugar but taste poison.
  • Poison is beneficial to the body, and sugar noxious: ’tis better that the body should be deprived of supplies.