Quotes About Covetousness

You can collect as many rings as you like, Telamon, but you'll never have enough. I think you'll be afraid for the rest of your life! - Pirra

There's a chasm between envy and desire. Envy is like wanting something that's not yours. But desire is different. Desire comes out of wanting what is yours, and still wanting it even if it's not yet there, but it's not envy.

Strengthen your borders, your frontier patrols; It is good to work for the future. One respects the life of the foresighted, While he who trusts fails. Make people come [to you] through your good nature, A wretch is who desires the land [of his neighbor], A fool is who covets what others possess. Life on earth passes, it is not long, Happy is he who is remembered

He didn't know the first thing about greed. He thought it was all about money.

Power more surely corrupts the man who covets it than the man who exercises it.

Envy differs from the other vices by the ease with which it disguises itself as a virtue.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

She was a greedy thing sometimes. Wanting for herself. Twisting the world all out of proper shape. Pushing everything about with the weight of her desire.

Adam and Eve weren't just after God's forbidden fruit; they were after God's position.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas.

Only one bear eats from this honey pot, Tatia

When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”

Turn my heart to Your testimonies and not to covetous gain.

All day long he covets more, but the righteous give without restraint.

They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

I have not coveted anyoneís silver or gold or clothing.

But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.