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Avarice Greed Quotes

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Benjamin Franklin
Luxury, Avarice Greed, Want
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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
Lust, Avarice Greed, Wealth

Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.

E. B. Farnum
Stupidity, Avarice Greed, Sin

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

Stendhal
Avarice Greed, Morality, Kind
Stendhal (1950*). “Stendhal on Love”

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

Michel de Montaigne
Avarice Greed, Want, Abundance
"The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne".

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

Edmund Pendleton
Battle, Principles, Avarice Greed
Edmund Pendleton (1967). “The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803”

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

William Penn
Wall, Avarice Greed, Hazards
William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.832

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

Honore de Balzac
Avarice Greed, Poverty, Ends

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