To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.
We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.
Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.
Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.