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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.


Thornton Wilder


#envy #every #home #pride

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

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.


Edmund Pendleton


#battle #hopes #our #peace #pervaded

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.


Marquis de Sade


#avarice #cruelty #fluid #founded #lends

The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...


Jasper Fforde


#detestable #dilutes #evil #expert #good

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 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

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


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#avarice #luxury #many #poverty #some






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