When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals. — Anna Brownell Jameson 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
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“We live in a culture that consumes to the extent that avarice is no longer one of Gregory the Great's deadly sins… — Dennis Okholm Copy Share Image
God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork. — C. S. Lewis 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
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and… — Dorothy Day 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
Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance. Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger… — Francis of Assisi 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
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
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people?… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
“They again kissed each other and fell asleep. The patch of light on the ceiling now seemed to be assuming the shape… — Émile Zola 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
Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that… — David Hume Copy Share Image
![“Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.” quote by Malcolm Muggeridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e6/malcolm-muggeridge-2370_accumulating_accumulating-knowledge-is-a-form-of-avar_566709.jpg)
