Timon, having abandoned society to live in a cave, delivers a misanthropic tirade against the corrupting nature of humanity and wealth. While digging for food, he discovers a hoard of gold and reflects on how money perverts all human values, turning the foul into the fair and the coward into the valiant.
TIMON: O blessèd breeding sun, draw from the Earth
Rotten humidity! Below thy sister’s orb
Infect the air! Twinned brothers of one womb,
Whose procreation, residence, and birth
Scarce is dividant, touch them with several fortunes,
The greater scorns the lesser. Not nature,
To whom all sores lay siege, can bear great fortune
But by contempt of nature.
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