“There is nothing riches are so likely to breed as pride. Every fruit, every grain, every kind of corn, every tree, has its own proper worm. There’s one worm for apples, another for pears, another for beans, another for wheat. The worm in riches is pride.”
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (354-430) in Sermon 61.10 (cf. 1 Timothy 6:17, Luke 12:13-21, trans. Daniel Doyle and Edmund Hill (New York: New City Press).