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Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.
Sep 10, 2025
It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.
What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!
To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion.
It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life.
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.
Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.
It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too.
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.
Worry, hate, fear-together with their offshoots: anxiety, bitterness, impatience, avarice, unkindness, judgmentalness, and condemnation-all attack the body at the cellular level. It is impossible to have a healthy body under these conditions.
We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.
Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.
I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.
The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and heart; in pride, avarice, covetousness, envy, hatred, wicked impatience and irritation; in evil despondence, in the abominations of fornication, adultery, theft, false-witness, blasphemy, negligence, slothfulness, and sluggishness.
Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.