Avarice Quote by E. B. Farnum Download Open image “Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.” — E. B. Farnum ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avarice Avarice greed Inspirational Sin Stupidity
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The major sins are the sins one commits, then considers them insignificant and underrates them — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“We live in a culture that consumes to the extent that avarice is no longer one of Gregory the Great's deadly sins but one… — Dennis Okholm Copy Share Image
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become deserted and the land has ceased to yield fruit, although there have neither been continuous wars nor epidemics...For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence… — Polybius Copy Share
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. — John Oates Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the poor; anger by goodwill and love for all men; worldly dejection by spiritual joy; listlessness by patience, perseverance and offering thanks to God; self-esteem by doing good in secret and by praying constantly with a contrite… — John of Damascus Copy Share
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied. — Horace Copy Share Image
