I think I shall I take our epigraph from a passage in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics I. v. 8 :

The life of money making is something forced on us, and clearly wealth is not the great good we are seeking, for it is only good in sofar as it is useful and means to something else.

Shortly I propose to examine the arguments of the philosophers who misprize wealth and "count it as nothing" in comparison with the real virtues such as wisdom and justice. We shall see.