The covetous man is ever in want.

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The covetous man is ever in want.

In the original Latin

semper avarus eget

Horace

20 BC

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Acquisitiveness Envy Insatiable appetite

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Time

20 BC Classical antiquity

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Horace

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 2.

Original citation

Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 2.

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