What we are to venerate we should venerate, though it cost us our lives, or else
let us break off from it at once. Listen, ye who
seek your own true good, a firm spirit is worth
everything. It is good to water a young shoot
often; if it once dries up, it will not sprout again.
Tuka says, The blows of a chisel turn a stone
to God, but as for the pieces that it splits off, they
are used for the meanest purposes.
let us break off from it at once. Listen, ye who
seek your own true good, a firm spirit is worth
everything. It is good to water a young shoot
often; if it once dries up, it will not sprout again.
Tuka says, The blows of a chisel turn a stone
to God, but as for the pieces that it splits off, they
are used for the meanest purposes.