Don't you see how even people who work with their hands — though they might seem simple in other ways — stick closely to their craft? They can't bear to abandon it. Isn't it sad that an architect or a doctor cares more about the methods of their profession than a person cares about the proper course of human nature — reason, which we share with the gods?
Dost thou not see, how even those that profess mechanic arts, though in some respect they be no better than mere idiots, yet they stick close to the course of their trade, neither can they find in their heart to decline from it: and is it not a grievous thing that an architect, or a physician shall respect the course and mysteries of their profession, more than a man the proper course and condition of his own nature, reason, which is common to him and to the Gods?