Human beings are always passionate about their flowery dreams and try their best to fulfill them at their earliest opportunity. There is not fault in attempting to fulfill cherished dreams, the only problem comes up when you splurge into the lucrative world forgetting your liabilities or expenses.
If your existing financial condition has kept your dream under a leash for long, you become patient at times and you become desperate to catch the ball, which has eluded you for a long time.
The problem becomes acute when your credit card allows you to drill out without considering the reality.
In general credit cards give you a very high limit for your purchase and you start purchasing exuberantly without bothering for the repayment schedule or keeping a close watch on the actual due in the credit card. Moreover persistent phone calls from the credit card providers may also provoke you to try out a credit card without giving yourself much scope to think.
When you start defying your financial constraints, you tend to be in trouble. If you spend consciously then credit cards become a really good instrument for you, whereas if credit card makes you extravagant, then you may even have to be behind the bars!
The contrary happens in kingdoms governed like that of France, because one can easily enter there by gaining over some baron of the kingdom, for one always finds malcontents and such as desire a change. Such men, for the reasons given, can open the way into the state and render the victory easy; but if you wish to hold it afterwards, you meet with infinite difficulties, both from those who have assisted you and from those you have crushed. Nor is it enough for you to have exterminated the family of the prince, because the lords that remain make themselves the heads of fresh movements against you, and as you are unable either to satisfy or exterminate them, that state is lost whenever time brings the opportunity.
Sandra Kellog wrote about it lately but i think what you wrote is much better.
funny, Tony Santos wrote about this topic exactly the other day.