There's
no evil in the world that doesn't spring from this accursed
passion
to possess. Greed, avarice, love of riches - there’s the source
of
all sorts of ills. Cupiditas, radix omnium malorum. The person
subject to this avarice bears within himself the principle, the
origin,
and the source of all evil, radix omnium malorum... There’s
no crime so scandalous that a man who wants to have possessions may
not commit. (13 August 1655; SV XI, 224)
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