Quomodo enim “radix omnium malorum cupiditas”, sic radix omnium bonorum caritas est.
For just as the “root of all evils is greed”, so the root of all good things is charity.
Augustine of Hippo – known as Aurelius Augustinus, early Christian theologian and philosopher, one of the four Latin Doctor of Church (354-430), from his “Expositions on the Psalms” (“Enarrationes in psalmos”, 90,1,8, written c. 405)