Austerity Quote by Chanakya

Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no…

— Jeremy Taylor

Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It…

— Aldous Huxley

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from…

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

The antidote for covetousness is contentment. The two are in opposition. Whereas the covetous, greedy person worships himself, the contented person worships God. Contentment…

— John Macarthur

“Most vices… demand considerable self-sacrifice. There is no greater mistake than to suppose the vicious life is the life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is…

— Aldous Huxley

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt,…

— Adam Smith

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

— Joseph Joubert

Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all…

— Herman Melville

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and…

— Thomas Hobbes

There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

— Dominique Bouhours