God sells us all things at the price of labor.

The aphorism frames achievement as something not granted freely but “purchased” through effort. By casting God as a seller and labor as the universal price, it suggests a moral economy in which talent, fortune, or divine favor do not replace sustained work; even what seems like a gift is realized only through exertion. The line also implies an egalitarian principle: the same currency—labor—applies to “all things,” whether knowledge, skill, or material success. In a Renaissance context, it resonates with humanist esteem for disciplined practice and the workshop ethos that mastery is forged through repeated, often arduous, making and study.