"One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed, the scale is tipped to the good—he and the world are saved."

"It is a positive commandment to sanctify God's name."

"The greatest wisdom is to know oneself."

"any man who believes in the truth of wizardry is a fool, lacking in understanding, and is in the same class as women and children, whose intellects are incomplete."

"The man who is perfect in his knowledge of God is he who has attained to the knowledge of all things that exist."