"Avarice, the spur of industry." — David Hume
"Avarice, the spur of industry."
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David Hume
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216 Quotes by David Hume
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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to…
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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most…
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Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with…
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Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with…
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious…
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
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God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by…
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing…
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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us…
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that…
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
— William Blake
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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
— Dante Alighieri
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Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people?…
— Tecumseh
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
— George Washington
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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of…
— Karl Marx
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your…
— Thomas Merton
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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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