Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long.
For what can be known about God is plain to all, because God is plain to all, because God has shown it to them. Ever since creation of the world His invisible nature, namely His eternal power has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made.
To trust a stranger without investigation invites troubles so endless that even descendants must endure them. To rust a man who has not been tested and to suspect a man who has proven trustworthy lead alike to endless ills.
For which of you desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
God created man incorruptible, and made him in the image of his own nature, but through the devil’s envy, death came into the world.