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- Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
- Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch…
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- Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. — William Blake
- Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. — Dante Alighieri
- Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have… — Tecumseh
- It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. — George Washington
- All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels… — Karl Marx
- What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their… — Edwin Percy Whipple
- Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism,… — Michel de Montaigne
- Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness… — Thomas Merton
- It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. — Michel de Montaigne
- Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover. — Ralph Waldo Emerson