Virtue And Decency Are So Nearly Related

No Obligation To Do The Impossible Is Binding.

Long Life Is Denied Us; Therefore Let Us Do Something To Show That We Have Lived.

The Nobler A Man, The Harder It Is For Him To Suspect Inferiority In Others.

Now In Regard To Trades And Other Means Of Livelihood, Which Ones Are To Be Considered Becoming To A Gentleman And Which Ones Are Vulgar, We Have Been Taught, In General, As Follows. First, Those Means Of Livelihood Are Rejected As Undesirable Which Incur People's Ill-will, As Those Of Tax-gatherers And Usurers. Unbecoming To A Gentleman, Too, And Vulgar Are The Means Of Livelihood Of All Hired Workmen Whom We Pay For Mere Manual Labour, Not For Artistic Skill; For In Their Case The Very Wage They Receive Is A Pledge Of Their Slavery.

We Are Not Born For Ourselves Alone.