If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.