Avarice Quote by Seneca the Younger

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

— Edmund Burke

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

— Henri Rousseau

If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he…

— Gautama Buddha

Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the…

— Plutarch

“Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover…

— Francis Bacon

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

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best…

— Francis Bacon

Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt;…

— Plutarch

Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the…

— Plutarch

There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Luxury is dangerous to people who have never known it and to whom its temptations are held out too suddenly. [...] Just as the…

— W. Somerset Maugham