“Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.”
William Shakespeare
“Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.”
Zoroaster
“You can achieve whatever you desire, but you must first define what you want.”
Jeffrey Benjamin
“He who fears death has already lost the life he covets”
Cato the Censor
“In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.”
Camille Paglia
“As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.”
Daniel Defoe
“None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation”
Charles Caleb Colton
