Covetousness Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero Download Open image “If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Covetousness Mother Parenting
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 Copy Share Image
The widespread shame of motherhood is criminal, and it needs to stop. The world can never improve if you disrespect the people that bring… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
The only thing that seems eternal and natural in motherhood is ambivalence. — Jane Lazarre Copy Share Image
If you honour your mother, the Mother of the Universe will guard you against harm. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“From her love, O, reader!--her mother-love, which, if thou wilt observe well, hath this unlikeness to any other love: tender to the object, it… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
Women becoming, consequently, weakerthan they ought to behave not sufficient strength to discharge the first duty of a mother; and sacrificing to lasciviousness the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way… — Jessie Bernard Copy Share Image
Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress and peril, of shame ill-restrained, that you prepare for your sons and daughters in… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Motherhood is an act of creation and an enduring verity that is everlasting. Judith Land — Judith Land Copy Share Image
Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on hand enough… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is not. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness. — Francis Xavier Copy Share Image
It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Word says, ‘Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world’ (1 John 2:15). Jesus warned, ‘Beware of covetousness: for… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
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