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Avarice Quotes

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to it's own avarice and sadness Picture Quote #1

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write, - whether avarice or fame, - the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors Picture Quote #1

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the Earth Picture Quote #1

Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy Picture Quote #1

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration Picture Quote #1

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat men as arm them with fancy Picture Quote #1

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The cupidity centered on bank statements and shareholdings is more difficult to understand than the avarice of an Elizabethan trader Picture Quote #1

This avarice sticks deeper, grows with more pernicious root than summer - seeming lust, and it hath been the sword of our slain kings Picture Quote #1

There grows in my most ill compos'd affection such a stanchless avarice, that, were I king, I should cut off the nobles for their lands Picture Quote #1

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust Picture Quote #1

He therefore was at strenuous pains to atrophy his puny brains and registered success in this beyond the dreams of avarice till when he had at last become blind, paralytic, deaf and dumb insensible and cretinous he was admitted one of us Picture Quote #1

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men Picture Quote #1

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The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth Picture Quote #1

Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead Picture Quote #1

The objects of avarice and ambition differ only in their greatness. A miser is as furious about a halfpenny as the man of ambition about the conquest of a kingdom Picture Quote #1

The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire Picture Quote #1

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty Picture Quote #1

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger Picture Quote #1

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If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes Picture Quote #1

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer Picture Quote #1

Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers Picture Quote #1

If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life Picture Quote #1

I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man’s money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish Picture Quote #1

Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity Picture Quote #1

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The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice Picture Quote #1

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly? Picture Quote #1

An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice Picture Quote #1

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice Picture Quote #1

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs Picture Quote #1

Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice Picture Quote #1

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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to it's own avarice and sadness (Avarice Quotes) Whatever be the motives which induce men to write, - whether avarice or fame, - the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors (Avarice Quotes) All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the Earth (Avarice Quotes) Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy (Avarice Quotes) Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration (Avarice Quotes) Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat men as arm them with fancy (Avarice Quotes) The cupidity centered on bank statements and shareholdings is more difficult to understand than the avarice of an Elizabethan trader (Avarice Quotes) This avarice sticks deeper, grows with more pernicious root than summer - seeming lust, and it hath been the sword of our slain kings (Avarice Quotes) There grows in my most ill compos'd affection such a stanchless avarice, that, were I king, I should cut off the nobles for their lands (Avarice Quotes) Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust (Avarice Quotes) He therefore was at strenuous pains to atrophy his puny brains and registered success in this beyond the dreams of avarice till when he had at last become blind, paralytic, deaf and dumb insensible and cretinous he was admitted one of us (Avarice Quotes) Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men (Avarice Quotes) The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth (Avarice Quotes) Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead (Avarice Quotes) The objects of avarice and ambition differ only in their greatness. A miser is as furious about a halfpenny as the man of ambition about the conquest of a kingdom (Avarice Quotes) The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire (Avarice Quotes) Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty (Avarice Quotes) Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger (Avarice Quotes) If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes (Avarice Quotes) There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer (Avarice Quotes) Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers (Avarice Quotes) If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life (Avarice Quotes) I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man’s money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish (Avarice Quotes) Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity (Avarice Quotes) The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice (Avarice Quotes) For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly? (Avarice Quotes) An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice (Avarice Quotes) What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice (Avarice Quotes) Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs (Avarice Quotes) Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice (Avarice Quotes)

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