Avarice Quote by Thomas Paine

“Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and…

— Thomas Paine

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

— David Hume

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to…

— Samuel Johnson

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

— Pliny the Elder

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.

— Publilius Syrus

Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Unlike art and sex, money always arouses interest.

— Mason Cooley

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

— William E. Gladstone

“The problem of society today: An absolute lifestyle of entitlement. People gauge everything by "feeling", meaning whatever they feel like doing or whatever they…

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