“As money grows, care follows it and the hunger for more.”

— Virgil

Horace, Odes, Book III, ode xvi, lines 17–18
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Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam, Maiorumque fames.

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Ancient Roman poet -70–-19 BC

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