A quotation from Propertius

Money — it’s love of money that is fatal;
   for money’s sake men die before their time;
money is cruel; it nourishes men’s vices;
   it is the source of woe, the seed of crime.
 
[Ergo sollicitae tu causa, pecunia, vitae!
   per te immaturum mortis adimus iter;
tu vitiis hominum crudelia pabula praebes;
   semina curarum de capite orta tuo.]

Propertius (50–16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]
Elegies, Book 3, Elegy 7, l. 1ff (3.7.1–4) [tr. Carrier (1963)]

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