Equals

“You must consider the course of this world—that all things in it are but a play wherewith you spend your time in such unquietness, and that it goes with the rich and mighty as with the poor and the beggar; that all of us equally live and move in the four elements, and that the hard-earned morsel of the poor is as relishing and savory to him in his labour as the dainties of the rich are to him in his cares.

Also, that all of us subsist by One Breath, and that the rich man hath nothing but the pleasures of the palate and the lust of the eye for a little while more than his poor neighbor, for the end of both is the same.”

—Jakob Böhme, The Way to Christ (1623)
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