“ A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse. ”
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
~ Thomas More
Most people know nothing about learning, many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
