Auri sacra fames?
Virg. Æneid, lib. iii. ver. 56.
“O sacred hunger of pernicious gold!
What bands of faith can impious lucre hold?”
Dryden's Translation.
Nihil enim est fam angusti animi, tamque parvi, quam amare divitias nihil honestius, magnifi entrusque, quam pecuniam contemnere, si non habeas si habeas, ad beneficentiam liberalitem que conferre. “There is no surer characteristic of a narrow and little mind than to love riches, nothing more amiable and noble than to despise money if you possess it not—if you possess it, to be beneficent and liberal in the use of it.” Cic. De Offic. lib. i. cap. 20.—Ed.]