There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home. — Lotte Hass Copy Share Image
To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Worry, hate, fear-together with their offshoots: anxiety, bitterness, impatience, avarice, unkindness, judgmentalness, and condemnation-all attack the body at the cellular level. It… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the… — Polybius Copy Share Image
Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance. Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“From the subtle afflictions caused by love of status is seeking after and aspiring positions of authority – this is something whose… — Ibn Rajab The Evil of Craving for Wealth and Status Copy Share Image
What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
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