Avarice Quote by Victor Hugo

Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those…

— Henry Taylor

The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt,…

— Adam Smith

When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of…

— Zicheng Hong

Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

— Thomas Paine

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

“But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury. Moreover, a people becomes avaricious and luxurious…

— Augustine of Hippo

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can…

— Angus Deaton

When everybody in the world loves one another, then the weak will not be overpowered by the strong, the few will not be oppressed…

— Motsi Mabuse

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for the virtuous…

— oscar wilde

The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find…

— Philip Sidney