第191页 / 共734页

Well then, he who is Prodigal in this fashion is thought far

superior to the Stingy man for the aforementioned reasons, and

also because he does good to many, but the Stingy man to no one,

not even to himself. But most Prodigals, as has been said,

combine with their other faults that of receiving from improper

sources, and on this point are Stingy: and they become grasping,

because they wish to spend and cannot do this easily, since their

means soon run short and they are necessitated to get from some

other quarter; and then again, because they care not for what is

honourable, they receive recklessly, and from all sources

indifferently, because they desire to give but care not how or

whence.