… at Carthage, nothing that results in profit is regarded as disgraceful.*
Cicero (106-43 BC)
Endless money forms the sinews of war.**
Horace (65-8 BC)
Money madness is the basic disease of Rome.***
Petronius (ca 27-66 AD)
What power has law where only money rules?****
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*Will Durant, The Story of Civilization: Part III, Caesar and Christ, p. 414
**Philippics, Oration V, sc. 5
***Will Durant, The Story of Civilization: Part III, Caesar and Christ, p. 245
**** Satyricon, Cap. XIV