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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

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness. — Thomas Browne

There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. — Jonathan Swift

In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land. — John Milton

Three sparks
pride, 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

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good. — Samuel Johnson

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

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame — John Adams

Avarice is patriotic! — William Donaldson

Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied. — Horace

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

'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. — John Oates

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 all
avarice. 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

Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts. — Kenneth Patchen

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state. — Livy

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 is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger. — Lucian

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

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. — Horace

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many. — Edmund Burke

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

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. — Karl Marx

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

Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. — Alexander Pope

Those who covet much suffer from the want. — Horace

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

To covet beatitude is also avarice. — Osho

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 victim of your own greed..wallowing in the muck of avarice. — Jake Roberts

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

Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time. — Martin Amis

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

Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted. — E. B. Farnum

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him. — Samuel Johnson

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold. — Paul Eldridge

As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality. — Philip Neri

...avarice and stinginess [are] not frugality — David McCullough

Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck. — Rumi

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, avarice
Occupy our minds and labor our bodies,
And we feed our pleasant remorse
As beggars nourish their vermin. — Charles Baudelaire

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold. — Juvenal

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. — Lord Byron

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

Frugality is one thing, avarice another. — Horace

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

Avarice is a closed door, you don't know what's happening behind it, & before knocking you feel anxious. — Rachilde

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