Ad aspera

During the conversation, a stout man in rich clothes asks him:
-- You tell it so smoothly. So, tell me this: one person fought against hunger and died. Another decided to fight against the thirst for money, lost his business, his estate, and his good name, and it all went to some scoundrel who doesn't even believe in gods. So, where is your good in that? If you live like that, half will go bankrupt, the other half will rest, and the one who wants money, food, and to sleep with a woman will win. And he wants it and gets it.

A young man, about twenty years old, neatly groomed and clean-shaven, wearing simple clothes but with a dagger, asks:
-- I don't seem to have understood the most important thing from your speech. Is virtue in not having desires, or in suppressing desires? If you don't have them, then there is no virtue in a feat – even stones don't have desires. And if you have desires, then is your soul already corrupted, and is there no salvation?

-- Yes, there is enough of that in hearts, but there is definitely not enough in the stomach... Sir, could you spare some bread? -- one of the beggars asked, and the other supported him. -- Yes, you save people, so why not us? Are we not people anymore?