#covetousness

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

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Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. ↗

— John Milton

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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. ↗

— John Milton

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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. ↗

— Chanakya

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