“Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things”
Benjamin Franklin
“We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted”
“The avarice of mankind is insatiable”
Aristotle
“Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied”
Mark Twain
“Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men”
Dante Alighieri
“Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.”
Walter Savage Landor