(15 quotes found)
“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
“Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.”
Walter Savage Landor
“Avarice, the spur of industry”
David Hume
“To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.”
William Penn
“The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.”
Horace
“Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.”
Cyril Connolly
“It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.”
George Washington
“Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.”
Stendhal
“We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
