In the next place, clever and industrious men, of all the
 other orders of the state, are some of them actually trading themselves in Asia , and you ought to show a regard for their interests in their
 absence; and others of them have large sums invested in that province. It will, therefore become
 your humanity to protect a large number of those citizens from misfortune; it will become your
 wisdom to perceive that the misfortune of many citizens cannot be separated from the misfortune
 of the republic. In truth, firstly, it is of but little consequence for you afterwards to
 recover for the publicans revenues which have been once lost; for the same men have not
 afterwards the same power of contracting for them, and others have not the inclination, through
 fear.