• Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.

    Sophocles: Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
    Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.39, Harvard University Press