Pliny the Elder Quotes

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

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• The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Lust