"Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful……" — Niccolo Machiavelli

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• The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. — Ben Jonson
• Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous. — Thomas Browne
• The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. — Sun Tzu
• One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the… — Charles Caldwell Ryrie
• Be thrifty, but not covetous. — George Herbert
• Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over… — Harriet Quimby
• The covetous man is ever in want. — Horace
• The covetous man is always poor. — Claudius Claudianus
• The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a… — Pope Francis
• Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard… — Alexander Wilson
• Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of… — Thomas Adams

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