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#avarice

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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


#avarice #beauty #bid #both #disinterested

Avarice, the spur of industry.


David Hume


#industry #spur

We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.


Cory Booker


#also #avarice #calls #common #common sense

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.


Charles Caleb Colton


#extravagance #more #ruined #souls #than

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.


Cyril Connolly


#darkness #engenders #folly #ignorance #infatuation

There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.


George Hickenlooper


#age #avarice #became #civic #contributed

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


#lust #mankind #possess #rather #seems

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


Stendhal


#kind #worst

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


Willa Cather


#age






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