1) Even in the mid 1st century, Seneca saw money as the root of all evil:
"The greater part of the world's problems all come down to money. It's what wears out the law courts, pits father against son, concocts poison, puts a sword in the hand of both soldier and criminal..
"The greater part of the world's problems all come down to money. It's what wears out the law courts, pits father against son, concocts poison, puts a sword in the hand of both soldier and criminal..
2) "Money comes stained with blood. Thanks to money the nights are scarred by quarrelling husbands and wives, crowds squeeze on magistrates' benches, kings rage and plunder nations built out of the labour of aeons, just so they can hunt for gold and silver in the smoking ruins..
3) "You find it pleasing to gaze on your money bags lying in the corner? The thing that makes men scream until their eyes bulge, that makes courts echo to the sound of constant lawsuits, with jurors called in from far and wide to decide which man's greed is the most justified."
Seneca, 'On Anger' (De Ira), III.33
c.45 AD
c.45 AD
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