If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.

We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly.

He who knows himself knows god.

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'

Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others.

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.

If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.