#avarice

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

#anger #avarice #banished #enjoy #envy

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart. ↗

— Matthew Green

#heart

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#avarice #masked

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

#avarice #every #fair #foul #gods

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#avarice #luxury #many #poverty #some

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

My brother is undoubtedly arrogant," Tyrion Lannister replied. "My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you? ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#avarice #innocence #power #lust

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice. ↗

— Andreas Capellanus

#avarice #house #love #love is #stranger

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