If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
ATTRIBUTION:
Sun Tzu (65th century B.C.), Chinese general. Ed. James Clavell (1981). The Art of War, ch. 11, axiom 27 (c. 490 B.C.).