“Wealth itself is blameless, but there can be fear for its precious eye; for I consider the presence of a house's master to be its saving light.”
Source: The Persians (472 BC), lines 168–169 (tr. Christopher Collard)
Original
Ἔστι γὰρ πλοῦτός γ᾽ ἀμεμφής, ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ὀφθαλμῷ φόβος· ὄμμα γὰρ δόμων νομίζω δεσπότου παρουσίαν.
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