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Gold or man, which do you want? Take your choice. "The man? What is the man compared with his gold?"

— Gaius Lucilius

Aurum vis hominemne? Habeas. "Hominem? quid ad aurum?"

Original text (Latin)

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Notes from Wikiquote

Cp. Robert Burns, "A Man's a Man for a' That" (1795)

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