#avarice

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

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#avarice #expense #high #idolatry #living

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

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

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. ↗

— Edward Moore

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