Epaminondas made his familiar and hereditary poverty more light and easy by his philosophy and single life; but Pelopidas married a woman of good family, and had children; yet still thinking little of his private interests, and devoting all his time to the public, he ruined his estate: and, when his friends admonished and told him how necessary that money which he neglected was: “Yes,” he replied, “necessary to Nicodemus,” pointing to a blind cripple.
Source:
Plutarch, John Dryden, and Arthur Hugh Clough. "Pelopidas." Plutarch's Lives. New York: Modern Library, 2001. 387. Print.
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