Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave. — Horace Copy Share Image
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses:… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty,… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man;… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world. — Robert South Copy Share Image
Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousnes.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“When we feel ourselves to be sole heirs of the universe, when "the sea flows in our veins...and the stars are our… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them… — Tom Tryon Copy Share Image
What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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