What you dislike and cast away as evil is surely liked and picked up by someone, or something else as good.  Can one thing be at once two self-excluding things? Neither is it the one, nor the other, excepting that your I has made it evil; another I has made it good.

Therefore if you pray for anything at all, pray first and last for Understanding.

Set not on anything a price, for the slightest thing is priceless.  You price a loaf of bread.  Why not price the Sun, the Air, the Earth, the Sea and the sweat and ingenuity of Man without which there could have been no loaf?

Set not on anything a price lest you be setting prices on your lives.  No dearer is Man’s life than that which he holds dear.  Take care that you hold not your priceless life so cheap as gold.

How much more infinite a sea is Man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think that you have found his borders.