It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home. — Lotte Hass 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
All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
“The avarice, the hunger for materialistic possessions and the dependency upon alcohol had gradually become stronger and stronger. And now, it was… — Sue Fortin Copy Share Image
Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth… — Anonymous 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.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions… — Louise J. Kaplan 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
For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion… — John of Damascus 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
“Corruption,' Jordan Belfort believes, 'is endemic to human being. I mean, even men in monasteries - where enticement is hard to come… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more to chasing after wealth than the wastage of a person’s noble life for that which has no value.… — Ibn Rajab The Evil of Craving for Wealth and Status Copy Share Image
Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have.… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Alderic, Knight of the Order of the City and the Assault, hereditary Guardian of the King's Peace of Mind, a man not… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
Peace is not something you fight for With bombs and missiles that kill, Nor can it be won in a "battle of… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
“Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. — George Washington Copy Share Image
There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
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