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• Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Weakness, Sometimes

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• Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.

  Publilius Syrus

  Doe

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• The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.

  Aristotle

  Common, Reason, Currency

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• Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time.

  Martin Amis

  Goal, Lust, Sloth

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• Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.

  Sophia Lee

  Greed, Vices, Youth

  Sophia Lee (1804). “The Recess: Or, A Tale of Other Times ...”, p.18

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• Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Men, Greed

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Light, Boredom

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• Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suicide, Buddhist, Blessing

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• Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and be destroyed, and which only tickle our senses for a little while.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Greed, Soul, Treasure

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• It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

  C. S. Lewis

  Stupidity, Poverty, Humans

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• God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

  Martin Luther

  Ambition, Men, Office

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• Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Children, Independent, Pride

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

  Livy

  Luxury, Evil, Ruins

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• The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption and pollution. The dirt and scum that has attached itself to our hearts and minds is agitated and revealed by both the workings of a guilty conscience and the devouring avarice of the enemy of our souls.The

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Soul, Mind

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• A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth
  her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Heart, Ambition, Adventure

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.246

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• Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

  Juvenal

  Men, Fortune, Enjoy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 53, Satires, XII, line 50, 1922.

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• Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Men, Yield, Doe

  R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.138, The Overlook Press

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• You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.

  Scott Lynch

  Brain, Credit, Sawdust

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.161, Del Rey

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• If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.

  John Vianney

  Giving, Earth, Alms

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• The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Yoga, Self

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• Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Crafts, Politics, States

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.557, Library of America

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• I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Gambling, Rocks

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• Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

  Honore de Balzac

  Poverty, Cease

  Honore de Balzac (2009). “Lost Illusions”, p.16, The Floating Press

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• See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb Of late conceiv'd, and brought forth nothing ill) Is now degenerated, and become A base adult'ress, whose false births do fill The earth with monsters, monsters that do roam And rage about, and make a trade to kill: Now glutt'ny paunches, and avarice a pawn; Pale envy pines, pride swells, and sloth begins to yawn.

  Francis Quarles

  Pride, Envy, Sloth

  Francis Quarles, Joseph Swain, Edmund Evans (1861). “Quarles' Emblems”, p.12

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• In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

  John Milton

  Land, Share, Vain

  John Milton (1873). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems”, p.482

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