Some of your members, my students, have asked me this: How can a man keep one-tenth of all he earns in his purse when all the coins he earns are not enough for his necessary expenses? So did Arkad address his student upon the second day
Yesterday how many of thee carried lean purse? “All of us” answered the class.
Yet, thou do not all earn the same. Some earn much more than others. Some have much larger families to support. Yet, all purses were equally lean
Now I will tell thee an unusual truth about men and sons of men. It is this
That what each of us calls our ‘necessary expenses’ will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary