Crossword-Solution: PICAROS 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The only difference is that philosophers gave up all they had for their love of that kind of life, and picaros find it without giving up anything.

Philosophers abandoned their estates to contemplate natural and divine things, the movements of the heavens, with less distraction; picaros do it to sow all their wild oats.

Philosophers despised those things as vain and transitory; while picaros don't care for them because they bring along cares and work--something that goes against their profession.

Babbage distracted; while the Governor, now grown "warm in the harness," kept exclaiming at every instant, "Do you see how the 'Ladrones' want to cheat us here? Do you perceive what the Picaros intend by that?" If I could not follow his arithmetic, I could at least sympathize in his enthusiasm; and I praised the honor of the Mexicans, while I denounced "the cause of roguery" over the face of the globe, to his heart's content.

After the Tales of Chivalry came the Novelas de Picaros, picaresque novels we have called these Tales of Roguery in English.