All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.

The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.