God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

The examined life is the only life worth living.