There is nothing so characteristic of narrowness and littleness of soul as the love of riches. Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis. Book 1. Section 68.
Image: Solon before Croesus by Gerard van Honthorst 1624 (please excuse the anachronistic apparel) at the Kunsthalle Hamburg. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and the museum.
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