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Avarice Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more…
- Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.…
- Avarice is always poor.
- We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
- Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining…
More Avarice Quotes
- 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