The more someone has a more measured life, the happier he is, not much to worry about: servants, workers, land and the wealth of cattle. For by aiming at these we will drown ourselves in the burdens connected with them and blame God. Here is how our lust for death adapts and how we wander in the darkness of a life with sin, not knowing ourselves.

Evil clings to wires like copper rust and body impurity. But neither the one who processes the brass did the rust, nor the parents the impurity of the body. Neither did God do evil, but He gave man the knowledge and the power to distinguish, to flee from evil, as one who knows he will be harmed and tormented. Realize, then, that by not seeing someone proclaiming in power and wealth, you will be happy, leaving the devil deceived. But bring death before your eyes, and you will never covet any evil or worldly thing.

Not what is done according to the threads is sin, but the bad things after the choice of will. It is not a sin to eat, but to eat with discontent, without suitability and without restraint. Because you owe it to yourself to keep your body alive, but with no ill thoughts. It is not a sin to look clean, but to look with pity, pride and lust. It is a pity, however, not to listen quietly, but in anger. It is not a sin to not obstruct the tongue with thanksgiving and prayer, but it is a sin to speak evil. It is a pity not to work the hands of mercy, but to kill and kidnap. And so every one of our members is sinning, when the good works, instead of the good ones, against the will of God.