“With the increase of wealth the mania of covetousness increases.”
John Cassian (360–435) Christian monk and theologian
Book VII Chapter VII
Institutes of the Coenobia (c. 420 AD)
“Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.”
Ferneze, Act I, scene ii
The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)
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English dramatist, poet and translator 1564–1593Related quotes
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