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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Charles Caleb Colton
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
George Bancroft
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
Edmund Pendleton
Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.
Matthew Green
Avarice, the spur of industry.
David Hume
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
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
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
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
John Maynard Keynes
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Edward Moore
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
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
Andreas Capellanus
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
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
Thornton Wilder
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante Alighieri
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
Stendhal
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Cyril Connolly
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
William Wordsworth
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