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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

» Anatole France (1844-1924) French Writer[Born François-Anatole Thibault]

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

» André Breton (1896-1966) French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

» Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) British clergyman, sportsman and author [well known for his eccentrities]

Avarice, the spur of industry.

» David Hume (1711-1776) Scottish philosopher, economist and historian

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

» Erich Fromm (1900-1980) Jewish-German psychoanalyst and social philosopher

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

» Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist

Big mouthfuls often choke.

» Italian proverb (-)

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.

» John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) British economist

It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.

» Montaigne (1533-1592) French statesman, philosopher and essayist

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnatio

» Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) Napoleon I French general

For greed all nature is too little.

» Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) British poet, critic, and philosopher

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

» Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English author And polymath

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

» Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher['Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung']

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

» Donald Trump (1946-?) American Businessman

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

» Horace (65-8) Roman lyric poet ['Odes', 'Satires', 'Ars Poetica']

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

» Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet and politician

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.

» Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

» Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) British author and intellectual

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