Alphabet Quote by Michel de Montaigne

It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of…

— Thomas Aquinas

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

The covetousness makes human devilish and sacrifice makes Deity.

— Mak_786

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting…

— Marilynne Robinson

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

— Alexander Pope

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

— William Shakespeare

In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most…

— John Steinbeck

“[A]ll who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The same man…

— Richard de Bury

The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived.

— Rajneesh