“Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.”
Walter Savage Landor
“Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things”
Benjamin Franklin
“Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men”
Dante Alighieri
“Avarice, the spur of industry”
David Hume
“Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.”
Stendhal
“To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.”
William Penn
“Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.”
Cyril Connolly
