#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

#lust #mankind #possess #rather #seems

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

— Stendhal

#kind #worst

Avarice is the vice of declining years. ↗

— George Bancroft

#declining #vice #years

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#envy #every #home #pride

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#escape #eye #few #penetrating #retreats

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#avarice #masked

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#avarice #envy #fire #hearts #pride

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

#avarice #consent #could #diamond #earth

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. ↗

— Edward Moore

#avarice #beyond #dreams #i #i am

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#common-sense #curiosity #deadly-sins #faults #gold