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LAW & HISTORY > naturalist > Pliny the Elder
The lust of...
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The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips, MCR software, 1995.
-- Pliny the Elder, ( 23-79), Roman naturalist; He is known for his one surviving work, 37 Vol. Natural History.; died observing eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.