We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. Votes: 6
Ralph Waldo EmersonPride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. Votes: 4
Dante AlighieriAvarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is. Votes: 3
Francois de La RochefoucauldRiches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied. Votes: 3
HoraceAvarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted? Votes: 3
Benjamin FranklinI can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others. Votes: 3
Thomas BrownePurity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. Votes: 1
Cyril ConnollyManeater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. Votes: 1
John OatesThe cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonMy regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyFive great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhile one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence. Votes: 0
Isuna HasekuraBe niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeIt is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. Votes: 0
George WashingtonThere is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. Votes: 0
Jonathan SwiftThere, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair Votes: 0
Dante AlighieriWhen money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroWhat in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice. Votes: 0
Sarah Josepha HaleGratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisSome men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes. Votes: 0
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