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
We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Avarice is a closed door, you don't know what's happening behind it, & before knocking you feel anxious.” — Rachilde Copy Share Image
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his… — al-Haafidh ibn Rajab al-Hanbalee Copy Share Image
Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly? — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with… — Seneca the Younger 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
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the… — Henry Fielding 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
It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions. — Peter Damian 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
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb Of late conceiv'd, and brought forth nothing ill) Is now degenerated, and become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
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