Wealth keeps company with worthless men as well, and it tends to swell a man's thoughts

Wealth keeps company with worthless men as well, and it tends to swell a man's thoughts. Bacchylides. Epinicians. Ode 1.

Solon before Croesus by Nikolaus Knüpfer 1650-1652 at the J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles courtesy of the museum.