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||On Laws|

Then a lawyer said, "But what of our Laws, master?"|

And he answered:|

You delight in laying down laws,|

Yet you delight more in breaking them.|

Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter.|

But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore,|

And when you destroy them, the ocean laughs with you.|

Verily the ocean laughs always with the innocent.|

But what of those to whom life is not an ocean, and man-made laws are not sand-towers,|

But to whom life is a rock, and the law a chisel with which they would carve it in their own likeness?|

What of the cripple who hates dancers?|

What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of the forest stray and vagrant things?|

What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?|

And of him who comes early to the wedding-feast, and when over-fed and tired goes his way saying that all feasts are violation and all feasters law-breakers?|

What shall I say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun?|

They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws.|

And what is the sun to them but a caster of shadows?|

And what is it to acknowledge the laws but to stoop down and trace their shadows upon the earth?|

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?|

You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course?|

What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door?|

What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains?|

And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path?|

People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?| ||

||The Prophet |le prije ctuca / le pijyctu (the wise teacher)

jbocre: The Prophet: The Coming of the Ship |.i nu selklama le bloti

jbocre: The Prophet: On Love |lo ka prami

jbocre: The Prophet: On Marriage |lo nu speni

jbocre: The Prophet: On Children |lo panzi

jbocre: The Prophet: On Giving |lo nu dunda

jbocre: The Prophet: On Eating and Drinking |lo nu citka je pinxe

jbocre: The Prophet: On Work |lo zu'o gunka

jbocre: The Prophet: On Joy and Sorrow |lo li'i gleki je badri

jbocre: The Prophet: On Houses |lo zdani

jbocre: The Prophet: On Clothes |lo taxfu

jbocre: The Prophet: On Buying and Selling |lo nu tevecnu je vecnu

jbocre: The Prophet: On Crime and Punishment |lo zekri .e lo nu sfasa

jbocre: The Prophet: On Laws |lo flalu

jbocre: The Prophet: On Freedom |lo za'i zifre

jbocre: The Prophet: On Reason and Passion | lo nu krinu pensi .e lo se cinmo

jbocre: The Prophet: On Pain | lo nu dunku

jbocre: The Prophet: On Self-Knowledge | lo nu sevzi djuno

jbocre: The Prophet: On Teaching | lo nu ctuca

jbocre: The Prophet: On Friendship | lo nu pendo

jbocre: The Prophet: On Talking | lo nu tavla

jbocre: The Prophet: On Time | lo temci

jbocre: The Prophet: On Good and Evil | lo ka vrude .e lo ka pacna

jbocre: The Prophet: On Prayer | lo nu jdaselsku

jbocre: The Prophet: On Pleasure | lo za'i pluka

jbocre: The Prophet: On Beauty | lo ka melbi

jbocre: The Prophet: On Religion | lo lijde

jbocre: The Prophet: On Death | lo nu morsi

jbocre: The Prophet: The Farewell | le nu cusku zo co'o||