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#covetousness

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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.


Chanakya


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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.


Michel de Montaigne


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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.


Daniel Defoe


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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.


Christopher Marlowe


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Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.


John Milton


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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.


William Shakespeare


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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.


John Milton


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