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.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.