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Hermon was so Covetous, according to Lucilius’s Testimony, that dreaming one Night he had spent some Money, he was so troubled at it that he hang’d himself. Dinarches Philo was also such another Miser that he quitted the design he had of hanging himself because he would not be at a Half-peny charge for a Rope, seeking Death at a much cheaper rate. And Hemocrates grew such a Fool by his extreme Avarice, that when he died, he made himself his own Heir to all his Estate: From whence the Philosopher Bias took occasion to say, That Covetousness is the Mother of the Madness and Malice of Men.
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Hermon fut si avare, selon le temoignage de Lucile, que revant la nuit qu’il avoit depensé quelque Argent, il en eut tant de douleur, qu’il s’étrangla. Dinarques Philon fut aussi tellement avare, qu’il quitta le dessein de se pendre pour ne pas depenser deux liards à acheter une corde, cherchant la Mort à meilleur marché; & Hemocrate devint si fou par son extreme Avarice, qu’en mourant, il se constitua luy même heritier de tous ses biens. d’où le Philosophe Bias prit sujét de dire, Que l’Avarice et la Mere de la folie, & de la Malice des Hommes.