“When I was a boy, wealth was regarded as a thing so secure as well as admirable that everyone affected to own more property than he actually possessed. . . . Now a man has to be ready to defend himself against being rich as if it were the worst of crimes.”
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, VIII, bk. 24, 1. 18 (taken from “Great Quotations the Shaped the World”)