Arbatel: Kadimlerin Büyüsü Üzerine (Isagoge Aforizmaları)

Live to yourself and the Muses. Avoid the friendship of the common crowd. Value your time highly and be beneficial to all people. Use your gifts and be vigilant in your calling; let the Word of God never depart from your mouth. Be obedient to good advice. Avoid all procrastination. Accustom yourself to constancy and seriousness in both your words and deeds. Resist the temptations of the Tempter by the Word of God. Flee from earthly things; seek after heavenly things. Put no confidence in your own wisdom, but look to God in all things, according to that passage of Scripture: When we do not know what we should do, we lift up our eyes to You, O God, and from You we expect our help. For where all human help fails us, there the help of God will shine forth. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your strength, and your neighbor as yourself. And the Lord will keep you as the apple of His eye, and will deliver you from all evil, and will fill you with all good. Whatever you have learned, repeat it frequently and fix it in your mind. Learn much, but not many things, because a human understanding cannot be equally capable in all things.