“To what extremes won't you compel our hearts,
you accursed lust for gold?”

—  Virgil , Aeneid

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book III, Lines 56–57 (tr. Robert Fagles); the murder of Polydorus.

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Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames?

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Ancient Roman poet -70–-19 BC

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