Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.

We have more than we use.

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.