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title: "7 Cupidity Quotes by 7 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Cupidity quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Cupidity sayings and thoughts."
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> [True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-frederick-saunders/true-it-is-as-society-is-instituted-marriage-becomes-somewhat-of-a/)

[Arthur Frederick Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-frederick-saunders/)

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> [“But Cupidity comes to visit when a woman receives romance and immediately deduces that it must be love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dimarco/but-cupidity-comes-to-visit-when-a-woman-receives-romance-and/)

[Michael DiMarco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dimarco/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa4/michael-dimarco-60643_love_but-cupidity-comes-to-visit-when-a-woman_398018.jpg)

> [“Speed itself is slow when cupidity waits.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/publius-syrus/speed-itself-is-slow-when-cupidity-waits/)

[Publius Syrus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/publius-syrus/)

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> [Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dante-alighieri/oh-blind-oh-ignorant-self-seeking-cupidity-whcih-spurs-as-so-in-the/)

[Dante Alighieri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dante-alighieri/)

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> [No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-de-tocqueville/no-stigma-attaches-to-the-love-of-money-in-america-and-provided-it/)

[Alexis de Tocqueville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/)

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> [Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/cupidity-takes-created-things-for-ends-in-themselves-which-they-are/)

[Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/780/thomas-merton-231_capacity_cupidity-takes-created-things-for-ends-i_1185897.jpg)

> [Cupidity sustains our egoism, this is noble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-limn/cupidity-sustains-our-egoism-this-is-noble/)

[Jeremy Limn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-limn/)

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