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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
— Victor Hugo
Avarice is rarely the vice of youth ...
— Sophia Lee
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure
— Michel Foucault
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
— Socrates
Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.
— Louis Faurer
Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion).
— Al-Haafidh Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbalee
Greed and avarice have clouded their judgment,
— Vernon Baker
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
— William Penn
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
— Honore De Balzac
Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.
— Zhuangzi
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
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
What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.
— Sarah Josepha Hale
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 to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals
— Anna Brownell Jameson
It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
— Michel De Montaigne
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
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.
— Publilius Syrus
Avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.
— Sara Coleridge
