"Money: The root of all evil. Auri sacra fames. The god of the day (not to be confused with Apollo). Cabinet ministers call it an emolument, notaries a charge, doctors a fee, employees a salary, workers a wage, domestics their hire. Money doesn't make for happiness."
Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Platitudes (1880).
[Translation by J. I. Rodale (1954).]
(The Latin quotation, 'accursed greed for gold', is from Vergil's Aeneid, Book III, line 57.)
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