(Greek tragic poet, B.C. 440)

No such ill device

Ever appeared, as money to mankind:

This is it that sacks cities, this routs out

Men from their homes, and trains and turns astray

The minds of honest mortals, setting them

Upon base actions; this revealed to men

Habits of all misdoing, and cognizance

Of every work of wickedness.

(From the Book of Good Counsels)