Does anything exist about which someone might say, "Look at this! Is this new?" It happened ages ago; it existed before we did.

"As for human beings," I told myself, "God puts them to the test, that they might see themselves as mere animals."

A man might father a hundred children, and live for many years, so that the length of his life is long but if his life does not overflow with goodness, and he doesn't receive a proper burial, I maintain that stillborn children are better off than he is,

Someone who quarries stone might be injured; someone splitting logs can fall into danger.

Apportion what you have into seven, or even eight parts, because you don't know what disaster might befall the land.