Heard a GREAT quote today...

...while listening to my book on tape - a biography of Caesar Augustus.

It is a quote from Livy (Titus Livius) from his monumental work Ab Urbe Condita ("from the founding of the city").

Wealth has made us greedy; and self-indulgence has brought us, through any kind of sensual excess, to be in love with death, both individual and collective.

Sounds like the warning given to us by a recent modern inhabitant of the Eternal City who warned the world about its increasing Culture of Death.