Covetousness Quotes
69 quotes by 60 authors
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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no…
— Chanakya
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house…
— Abraham Cowley
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Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness…
— J. Reuben Clark
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All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for…
— Derek A. Cuthbert
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Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people, as Isaiah cries, we have…
— Justin Martyr
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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people
— Al-Ghazali
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One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.
— Charles Caldwell Ryrie
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Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is not. It is…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
— Daniel Defoe
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Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy,…
— Richard of Chichester
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The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and…
— Gautama Buddha
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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
— Christopher Marlowe
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Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of…
— William Penn
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The covetous man feareth not God. This also is plain from the word because it setteth covetousness and the fear of God in direct opposition.…
— John Bunyan
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The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but…
— Frank Chodorov
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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
— Epictetus
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The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with…
— Edwin Louis Cole
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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
— John Milton
Who Wrote These Covetousness Quotes
60 authors contributed a total of 69 Covetousness Quotes, led by these top contributors: