"Do not be too quick to condemn the……" — Thomas Merton

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• Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
• The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. — William Blake
• Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. — Dante Alighieri
• Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people?… — Tecumseh
• It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. — George Washington
• All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of… — Karl Marx
• What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings… — Edwin Percy Whipple
• Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others… — Michel de Montaigne
• It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. — Michel de Montaigne
• Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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