Thou didst learn a little since that whatever is is one, and that unity itself is good.
Accordingly, by this way of reckoning, whatever falls away from goodness ceases to be; whence it comes to pass that the bad cease to be what they were, while only the outward aspect is still left to show they have been men.

Wherefore, by their perversion to badness, they have lost their true human nature.

Further, since righteousness alone can raise men above the level of humanity, it must needs be that unrighteousness degrades below man's level those whom it has cast out of man's estate.
It results, then, that thou canst not consider him human whom thou seest transformed by vice.

The violent despoiler of other men's goods, enflamed with covetousness, surely resembles a wolf.

A bold and restless spirit, ever wrangling in law-courts, is like some yelping cur.