Michel de Montaigne: Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet— the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet— the firs — Michel de Montaigne

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet— the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

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