Writings

While you obey the belly, you say that you are innocent; and, as if courteously, makest yourself everywhere ready. Woe to you, foolish man! You yourself lookest around upon death. You seek in a barbarous fashion to live without law. You yourself hymnest yourself also to play upon a word, who feignest yourself simple. I live in simplicity with such a one. You believe that you live while you desire to fill your belly. To sit down disgracefully of no account in your house, ready for feasting, and to run away from precepts. Or because you believe not that God will judge the dead, you foolishly make yourself ruler of heaven instead of Him. You regard your belly as if you can provide for it. You seem at one time to be profane, at another to be holy. You appear as a suppliant of God, under the aspect of a tyrant. You shall feel in your fates by whose law you are aided.