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The Liberal man is also a good man to have for a partner in

respect of wealth: for he can easily be wronged, since he values

not wealth, and is more vexed at not spending where he ought to

have done so than at spending where he ought not, and he relishes

not the maxim of Simonides.

Chapter II.

But the Prodigal man goes wrong also in these points, for he is

neither pleased nor pained at proper objects or in proper manner,

which will become more plain as we proceed.

We have said already that Prodigality and Stinginess are

respectively states of excess and defect, and this in two things,

giving and receiving (expenditure of course we class under

giving). Well now, Prodigality exceeds in giving and forbearing

to receive and is deficient in receiving, while Stinginess is

deficient in giving and exceeds in receiving, but it is in small

things.