All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.