Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state. — Livy Copy Share Image
Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for… — William Mountford 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
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
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
“I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Descending the endless stairs for the sixth time, Mr. Lecky thought of all the goods those closed doors hid. Fantastic was the… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. — Jonathan Swift 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
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
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
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
Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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