To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them! — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however… — Lucian Copy Share Image
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons. — David Hume Copy Share Image
If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is no place in the kingdom of heaven for a divided heart. It is in the division that love is lost;… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we… — John A. Logan Copy Share Image
Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have.… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Corruption,' Jordan Belfort believes, 'is endemic to human being. I mean, even men in monasteries - where enticement is hard to come… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
“Now there was great rejoicing at the rumor of Alderic's quest, for all folk knew that he was a cautious man, and… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
“The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is… — Jasper Fforde 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
While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence. — Isuna Hasekura Copy Share Image
Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
