[O]ur age suffers not from new vices but from vices that have been handed down all the way from antiquity, and it is not in our age that avarice first pried into the veins of earth and rock searching for treasure poorly hidden in the darkness. 

Seneca, Naturales Quaestiones, Book IV

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  3. stoicmike said: Only about 2,000 years separates us from Seneca, but far longer from his era to the early dynasties of Egypt or Assyria.
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