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#avarice

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I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. ↗


— Edward Moore


#avarice #beyond #dreams #i #i am

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

Now there was great rejoicing at the rumor of Alderic's quest, for all folk knew that he was a cautious man, and they deemed that he would succeed and enrich the world, and they rubbed their hands in the cities at the thought of largesse; and there was joy among all men in Alderic's country, except perchance among the lenders of money, who feared they would soon be paid. And there was rejoicing also because men hoped that when the Gibbelins were robbed of their hoard, they would shatter their high-built bridge and break the golden chains that bound them to the world, and drift back, they and their tower, to the moon, from which they had come and to which they rightly belonged. There was little love for the Gibbelins, though all men envied their hoard. ("The Hoard Of The Gibbelins") ↗


— Lord Dunsany


#fantasy #greed #heroic-fantasy #loans #money-lender

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. ↗


— E.A. Bucchianeri


#common-sense #curiosity #deadly-sins #faults #gold

Avarice is the vice of declining years. ↗


— George Bancroft


#declining #vice #years

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

Avarice, the spur of industry. ↗


— David Hume


#industry #spur

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. ↗


— Charles Caleb Colton


#extravagance #more #ruined #souls #than

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


— Willa Cather


#age

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. ↗


— Socrates


#contentment #gluttony #greed #greed






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