Or suppose that someone recornrnend ed to as a steward a man to whom you can blindly entrust all your concerns, and that, in order to instill trust in you, he extolled the man as a prudent human being with a masterly understanding of his own advantage and also as a tirelessly acione who passes up no opportunity for promoting it; and that finally, lest any worries about a vulgar self intere in the man stand in the way, he extolled the man because he understands how to live with great refinement, seeks his gratification not in the accumulation of money or in brutish opulence but in the expansion of his knowledge, in select and instrutive society, even in beneficence to the needy, while otherwise he is not scrupulous as to the means (which, after all, derive their worth or lack of worth only from the purpo, and other people's money or property are as good for this purpose as his own, provided he knows that he can use damit davon.