XV + 

Such sayings did I hear pious backworldsmen speak to their consciences, and verily without wickedness or guile⁠—although there is nothing more guileful in the world, or more wicked. + 

“Let the world be as it is! Raise not a finger against it!” + 

“Let whoever will choke and stab and skin and scrape the people: raise not a finger against it! Thereby will they learn to renounce the world.” + 

“And thine own reason⁠—this shalt thou thyself stifle and choke; for it is a reason of this world⁠—thereby wilt thou learn thyself to renounce the world.”⁠— + 

—Shatter, shatter, O my brethren, those old tables of the pious! Tatter the maxims of the world-maligners!⁠— + 