#avarice

Alderic, Knight of the Order of the City and the Assault, hereditary Guardian of the King's Peace of Mind, a man not unremembered among the makers of myth, pondered so long upon the Gibbelins' hoard that by now he deemed it his. Alas that I should say of so perilous a venture, undertaken at dead of night by a valorous man, that its motive was sheer avarice! Yet upon avarice only the Gibbelins relied to keep their larders full, and once in every hundred years sent spies into the cities of men to see how avarice did, and always the spies returned again to the tower saying that all was well. It may be thought that, as the years went on and men came by fearful ends on that tower's wall, fewer and fewer would come to the Gibbelins' table: but the Gibbelins found otherwise. ("The Hoard Of The Gibbelins") ↗

— Lord Dunsany

#fantasy #greed #heroic-fantasy #knight #treasure

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

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Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age. ↗

— Willa Cather

#age

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

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart. ↗

— Matthew Green

#heart

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

#coming #cost #forgotten #free #generations

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. ↗

— Edward Moore

#avarice #beyond #dreams #i #i am

Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion). ↗

— al-Haafidh ibn Rajab al-Hanbalee

#craving-for-wealth #greed #quotes-of-prophet-muhammad #status #wealth

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

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