Avarice Quotes

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
Anger Peace Pride Envy Enemies Ambition Enjoy Were Perpetual Infallibly Five Banished Avarice Us Inhabit Should
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. Dante Alighieri
Pride Envy Men Fire Hearts Avarice Sparks Set
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
Life Strength Revenge Fluid Nervous Cruelty Ambition Lust Other Supports Passions Lends Avarice Them Founded
Avarice is a deadly sin. Saint Patrick
Sin Deadly Avarice
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world. Francis of Assisi
World Poverty Cares Avarice Holy
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fickle Our Hesitation Puny Folk Following Diseases Avarice
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
Wealth Lust Possess Totally Seems Rather Seized Than Avarice Them Mankind
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice. Andreas Capellanus
Love Love Is House Always Avarice Stranger
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. Hans Urs von Balthasar
World Sadness Word Beauty Own Our Ancient Both Imperceptibly New Bid Without Understand Leaving Itself New World Refused Which Disinterested Avarice Interests Farewell
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
Time People Free Neglect Vandalism Cost Generations Coming Testify Forgotten Republic Avarice Present
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. Charles Caleb Colton
Extravagance Ruined More Souls Than Avarice
I have nothing against rich brothers and sisters. Pray for 'em every day. But callousness and indifference, greed and avarice is something that's shot through all of us. Cornel West
Day Every Day Greed Rich Nothing Every Brothers Brothers And Sisters Indifference Something Through Pray Pray For Sisters Against Avarice Us Shot
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. Cyril Connolly
Wisdom Ignorance Darkness Passion Folly Purity Infatuation Avarice
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Edward Moore
Dreams Rich Beyond Am Avarice
I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to. Karen Joy Fowler
Best Myself Survival Important Lost Greed Elves Solving Know Talk Learned How Friend May Avarice Skill Riddles Among Dragon
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. Stendhal
Worst Kind Avarice

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