Avarice Quote by Baruch Spinoza

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

— Baruch Spinoza

It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

“The law as it is considered as a rule can be no more abolished or changed than the nature of good and evil can…

— Samuel Bolton

Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to…

— Polycarp

“If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

— Adam Smith

“A very ridiculous thing it is, that any man should dispense with vice and wickedness in himself, which is in his power to restrain;…

— Marcus Aurelius

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

— Samuel Johnson

Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.

— Benvenuto Cellini

I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked…

— Jerome Lawrence

Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate…

— Albert Gallatin

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

— Laozi