35. Dost thou not see how the handicraftsmen accommodate themselves up to
a certain point to those who are not skilled in their craft,--
nevertheless they cling to the reason [the principles] of their art, and
do not endure to depart from it? Is it not strange if the architect and
the physician shall have more respect to the reason [the principles] of
their own arts than man to his own reason, which is common to him and the
gods?

36. Asia, Europe, are corners of the universe; all the sea a drop in the
universe; Athos a little clod of the universe: all the present time is a
point in eternity. All things are little, changeable, perishable. All
things come from thence, from that universal ruling power either directly
preceding or by way of sequence. And accordingly the lion's gaping jaws,
and that which is poisonous, and every harmful thing, as a thorn, as mud,
are after-products of the grand and beautiful. Do not then imagine that
they are of another kind from that which thou dost venerate, but form a
just opinion of the source of all (VII. 75).

37. He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which
has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time
without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.

38. Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe and
their relation to one another. For in a manner all things are implicated
with one another, and all in this way are friendly to one another; for
one thing comes in order after another, and this is by virtue of the
active movement and mutual conspiration and the unity of the substance
(ix. 1).