57. Nothing is more
odious than for a man to have no love for a virtuous life, but instead
to be kept excited by an unworthy business in following out a low line
of trade, or to be inflamed by an avaricious heart, and by day and by
night to be eager to damage another’s property, not to raise the
soul to the splendour of a virtuous life, and not to regard the beauty
of true praise.