Aim Quote by Friedrich Engels

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

— Nicolas Chamfort

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in…

— Alexander Pope

The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others,…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

— Walter Raleigh

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

— Christopher Marlowe

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

— John Milton

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the…

— Joseph Conrad

For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth…

— Plutarch

Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but…

— Thucydides

“This kind of unmasking and refusing complicity is part of the simplicity of lifestyle. Simplicity, the rejection of consumerism and opting for possessionlessness, is…

— Dorothee Soelle

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

— Sallust

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

— Pliny the Elder