“Wealth, then, cannot make its possessor independent and free from all want, yet this was what it seemed to promise. Moreover, I think this also well deserves to be considered⁠—that there is nothing in the special nature of money to hinder its being taken away from those who possess it against their will.”

“I admit it.”

“Why, of course, when every day the stronger wrests it from the weaker without his consent. Else, whence come lawsuits, except in seeking to recover moneys which have been taken away against their owner’s will by force or fraud?”

“True,” said I.

“Then, everyone will need some extraneous means of protection to keep his money safe.”

“Who can venture to deny it?”

“Yet he would not, unless he possessed the money which it is possible to lose.”