Avarice Quotes (page 2)

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• diseases
• followed
• hesitates

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• totally
• totality
• possessing

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

• kindness
• kind
• kinds

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. Stendhal

• thinking
• adorable
• adoring

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. William Wordsworth

• enemy
• pride
• peace

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. Petrarch

• home
• pride
• envy

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. Thornton Wilder

• dark
• wisdom
• ignorance

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. Cyril Connolly

• eyes
• cans
• retreat

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice. Thomas Clarkson

• time
• people
• free

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic. John A. Logan

• hard
• evening
• earth

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings. Andreas Capellanus

• love
• house
• lovingly

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice. Andreas Capellanus

• luxury
• wants
• poverty

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• ambition
• buts
• mask

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. Walter Savage Landor

• life
• ambition
• support

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. Marquis de Sade

• common
• past
• financial

We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending. Cory Booker