Greed for ownership has taken such a hold of us that we seem to be possessed by wealth rather than to possess it.

Pliny the Younger (c. 61-c. 113) Roman politician, writer [Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus]
Letters, 9.30 [tr. Radice (1963)]

 
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