As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousnes.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil. — William Penn Copy Share Image
A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. — Luke the Evangelist Copy Share Image
“Men's souls are naturally inclined to covetousness; but if ye be kind towards women and fear to wrong them, God is well… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
NBC is excited about the investment in WWF Entertainment. The WWF is widely recognized as having created a leading brand and has… — Bob Wright Copy Share Image
To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses:… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty,… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
“When we feel ourselves to be sole heirs of the universe, when "the sea flows in our veins...and the stars are our… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“He can go about his business, so completely satisfied to see and be part of the divine Order of Things that he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them… — Tom Tryon Copy Share Image
The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over… — John Chancellor Copy Share Image
That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness. — Nicolas Chamfort 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
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not… — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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