9. Act the man then, I pray you. Do not build up your wealth. You have in fact been following this precept, since you have been diminishing your wealth on your own initiative by distributing to the needy. This has been a virtuous service. You have not bound your free will with an oath on a sudden impulse and without full consideration simply in order to win the praise of men. Some have done so in a spirit of rivalry and out of love for glory. They enslaved their own free will by the bond of an oath