Volney Quotes

VOLNEY, Constantine F. Chasseboef

(1757-1820), French philosopher

Prodigality

Prodigality and dissipation, at last bring a man to the want of the necessities of life; he falls into poverty, misery, and abject disgrace; so that even his acquaintances, fearful of being obliged to restore to him what he has squandered, fly from him as a debtor from his creditors, and he is left abandoned by all the world.