Avarice Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avarice Saws Should
they say in the old tales that when a man and woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. their gaze is… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“But nothing is said of the closeness between two people: how they grew in the shade of each other's presence. No one speaks of… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Their resemblance in good principles and good sense, in disposition and manner of thinking, would probably have been sufficient to unite them in friendship,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. — Mary Catherwood Copy Share Image
“As we each began our journey, we learned the importance of connecting, of laughing with one another (not at one another), of sharing our… — Sharon E. Rainey Copy Share Image
These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other often, but can make each other effortlessly happy.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing… — Polybius 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
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. — John Oates Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it… — Washington Irving 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 for the… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied. — Horace Copy Share Image
