Avarice Quote by Aristotle

Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Every Man can provide enough to satisfy his woman's needs, but not her greed.

— KM II

We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we…

— Samuel Gompers

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

— Adam Smith

In the business world, unwise men take more that they give. They do not realize that they are breaking the Universal Law which will…

— Walter Russell

“Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the luxuries and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.

— William Wycherley

“The nature of men is such that they find themselves obligated as much for the benefits they confer as for those they receive.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“It was the verdict of ancient writers that men afflict themselves in evil and weary themselves in the good, and that the same effects…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with…

— Jonathan Swift

Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson