Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE)
“Money, name, and property, if divorced from good sense and skill in living one’s own life and directing the lives of others, lapse into total degradation and supercilious insolence. And indeed there is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.”
- From The Republic by Cicero (Book 1, chapter 52), translated by Niall Rudd (Oxford University Press, 1998).
