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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
— Aristotle.
Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.
— Roger L'Estrange
Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
— William Hazlitt
Three sparkspride, envy, and avarice
have been kindled in all hearts. — Dante Alighieri
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
— Cyril Connolly
It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
— Samuel Richardson
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
— Honore De Balzac
If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries.[Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
— Seneca The Younger
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
— William Wordsworth
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
— Gautama Buddha
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
— C.S. Lewis
Avarice is patriotic!
— William Donaldson
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age ...
— Jonathan Swift
Avarice is rarely the vice of youth ...
— Sophia Lee
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
— C.S. Lewis
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
— Charles Caleb Colton
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
— Jonathan Swift
Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?
— Jane Austen
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.
— R. Scott Bakker
The cupidity centered on bank statements and shareholdings is more difficult to understand than the avarice of an Elizabethan trader.
— Penelope Lively
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
— Andreas Capellanus
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
— Socrates
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
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
— Benjamin Franklin
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.
— Zhuangzi
Nature punishes gluttony, not avarice or hate.
— William H Gass
Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.
— William Shenstone
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
— Baron De Montesquieu
What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.
— Sarah Josepha Hale
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair
— Dante Alighieri
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
At bottom the character of M. Bonacieux was one of profound selfishness mixed with sordid avarice, the whole seasoned with extreme cowardice.
— Alexandre Dumas
All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of allavarice. This is the secret of life. — Edouard Rene De Laboulaye
Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
— Edmund Burke
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
— Walter Savage Landor
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
— George Bancroft
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
Avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
— Publilius Syrus
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
— Edmund Pendleton
The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.
— Frederick Lenz
Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.
— Louis Faurer
It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
— Michel De Montaigne
We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
— Samuel Johnson
Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It seems to me that he died from a combination of two of the oldest and most insidious killers of all: ignorance and avarice.
— Robert A. Norman
Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
— William E. Gladstone
Avarice, the spur of industry.
— David Hume
You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.
— Scott Lynch
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.
— Publilius Syrus
Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A good bank is the one that does good to its community and a bad bank is the one that feeds the avarice of corrupt individuals. Very simple.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
— Thomas Clarkson
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
— Thornton Wilder
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
— Edward Moore
Avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.
— Sara Coleridge
You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.
— Samuel Johnson
Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.
— Paul Eldridge
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...avarice and stinginess [are] not frugality
— David McCullough
Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.
— Matthew Green
The Planet Earth is a cesspool of avarice and apathy.
— Robert Peate
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
— Francis Of Assisi
Folly, error, sin, avariceOccupy our minds and labor our bodies,
And we feed our pleasant remorse
As beggars nourish their vermin. — Charles Baudelaire
Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?
— Benjamin Franklin
The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
— Alexander Hamilton
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
— Charles Caleb Colton
When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
— Dante Alighieri
Avarice cripples virtue and lies in ambush for honesty. My
— Maya Angelou