Quotes About Avarice

You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.

The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage!

Hee that hath all can have no more

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

stand with Livy, who at the final hardening of Rome's republican arteries, wrote that the study of his land's history was the study of the rise and fall of moral strength, with duty and severity giving way to ambition, avarice, and license, till his fellow Romans "sank lower and lower, and finally began the downward plunge which has brought us to the present time, when we can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

Naturally, nobody mentioned his infidelities, his treachery, his tendency toward domination and humiliation, his utterly mercenary approach to most art, his yelling, his firing people on a whim, his inability to or lack of desire to recognize the inner lives of others, his avarice, his all-around tendency to make

The sole secret of becoming a filthy, monetarily rich is perhaps to think nothing but only about money and own profits all the time.

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

Those were his exact words, "an insatiable lust for power and money".

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

It was everyone for themselves. To each according to his or her avarice, from each according to his or her naiveté. The sharing economy, it turned out, was the uncaring economy.

All you ever care about is money. That's all that matters to you! The only thing you understand is money, what a thing is worth in money.

pues nunca, que yo sepa, hubo verbos que al más avaro le dolieran en la bolsa.

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

Memmius:) But who are these that have thus taken the government into their hands? Men of the most abandoned character, of blood-stained hands, of insatiable avarice, of enormous guilt, and of matchless pride; men by whom integrity, reputation, public spirit, and indeed every thing, whether honorable or dishonorable, is converted to a means of gain.

Thus avarice, leagued with power, disturbed, violated, and wasted every thing, without moderation or restraint; disregarding alike reason and religion, and rushing headlong, as it were, to its own destruction. For whenever any arose among the nobility, who preferred true glory to unjust power, the state was immediately in a tumult, and civil discord spread with as much disturbance as attends a convulsion of the earth.

It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.

El crimen del loco consiste en que se prefiere a los demás. Esta preferencia impía me repugna en los que matan y me espanta en los que aman. La criatura amada ya no es, para esos avaros, sino una moneda de oro en que crispar los dedos. Ya no es un dios: apenas es una cosa. Me niego a hacer de ti un objeto, ni siquiera el Objeto amado. (p. 50)

Yet ambition and avarice, almost more than any other passions, are the motives of crime.

And the avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end; for it is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.