The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.