Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.] — Juvenal 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
I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life. — Edouard Rene de Laboulaye 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
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become… — Juan de la Cruz Copy Share Image
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. — Horace 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
