Love of money is the disease which renders us most pitiful and grovelling, and love of pleasure is that which renders us most despicable.

Longinus · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 188

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Love of money is the disease which renders us most pitiful and grovelling, and love of pleasure is that which renders us most despicable.

Longinus · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 188

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